Story series on Texas Groundwater Depletion Launches

Story series on Texas Groundwater Depletion Launches

State’s surface waters originate from groundwater, yet fractured resource management means both may become less reliable: The Texas Center for Policy Studies recently launched Our Desired Future, a multimedia project to educate Texans on the interconnections between...
The Connecting Thread

The Connecting Thread

The behavior of water on and beneath private land is the key to preserving water for Texans in the 21st century and into the 22nd, a grand challenge that is uniquely Texan. Other western states have urban populations far removed from their water sources, but that’s...
Keeping Houses Out of Texas Floodwaters Could Cost Billions

Keeping Houses Out of Texas Floodwaters Could Cost Billions

Back on May 26th, Houston woke up to flooded freeways and neighborhoods as bayous overflowed their banks. In the Texas Hill Country, homes and bridges washed away and levees broke. But super-heavy rainfall is nothing new in Texas and in fact, it was years earlier that...