Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Feb 8, 2023 | Groundwater Resources, News, Planning and Development, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
Despite the recent rain across the region, the Guadalupe River and a popular watering hole are in a sorry state. January usually sees 2 inches of rainfall in the San Antonio area. But it hasn’t even been close this year. The region has received just 0.47 inches of...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Feb 8, 2023 | Community, Groundwater Resources, Legislature and Regulation, News, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
The Environmental Protection Agency says an informal investigation is underway after more than two dozen environmental advocacy groups submitted a petition against the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The petition alleges that state regulators are not doing...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Feb 8, 2023 | Community, News, Transportation Planning
The Texas Department of Transportation released the environmental impact statement (EIS) draft for its proposed Interstate 35 Capital Express Central project. The draft provides Central Texans their first look at how many residences and businesses could be impacted by...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Feb 8, 2023 | Community, Community Resilience News and Resources, News
Heat-related deaths in Texas last year reached a new high for this century amid a sharp rise in migrant deaths and soaring temperatures enhanced by climate change, according to a Texas Tribune analysis of state data going back to 1999. In 2022, Texas saw its...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Feb 8, 2023 | Community, Community Resilience News and Resources, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development
By the glow of a flashlight, Stacy McAlpine and her 10-year-old granddaughter played Go Fish and other card games as they snuggled up next to a propane fireplace. Thirty miles south in Robertson County, Elizabeth Smith and her husband cooked freeze-dried camp food...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Feb 8, 2023 | Community, Groundwater Resources, Legislature and Regulation, News, One Water, Planning and Development, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers plans to spend part of its time in Austin this year highlighting the state’s increasingly fragile water infrastructure. Texas Water Foundation, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on creating a sustainable water system in Texas,...
