by admin | Jun 30, 2020 | Groundwater Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
From the moment Kinder Morgan and its business partners announced that their 430-mile Permian Highway Pipeline would cross the Texas Hill Country, landowners, environmentalists, elected officials and groundwater protection agencies along or near the route have fought...
by admin | Jun 29, 2020 | Conservation Easements, Economics of Sound Planning, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Landowner Alliances, Legislature and Regulation, Low Impact & Sustainable Development, Native Landscapes, News, Planning and Development, Public Lands, Regional Planning, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Planning, Water Resources, Wildlife
Twenty-seven years ago, Deborah Morin watched as the hills, streams, caves, and springs of the Hill Country outside of Austin were being gobbled up by construction… Almost three decades later, Morin, a San Antonio native, is at the head of a nonprofit working to...
by admin | Jun 25, 2020 | Groundwater Resources, News, Planning and Development, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
Texas water conservation practices have not improved in the last four years. June 23rd, 2020 – Austin, TX – The Texas Living Waters Project released the 2020 Texas Water Conservation Scorecard, an in-depth analysis and ranking of the water conservation...
by admin | Jun 23, 2020 | Community Resilience News and Resources, Groundwater Resources, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
In the first nationwide research of its kind, our findings reveal the painful impact of America’s expanding water poverty crisis as aging infrastructure, environmental clean-ups, changing demographics and the climate emergency fuel exponential price hikes in almost... by admin | Jun 22, 2020 | Conservation Easements, Economics of Sound Planning, Habitat Conservation Plans, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Landowner Alliances, Local, Sustainable Agriculture, Low Impact & Sustainable Development, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Scenic Beauty
Millions of acres of America’s agricultural land were developed or converted to uses that threaten farming between 2001 and 2016, according to “Farms Under Threat: The State of the States,” a new report by American Farmland Trust. The report’s Agricultural Land...
by admin | Jun 22, 2020 | Groundwater Resources, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development, Vista Ridge Pipeline, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
The San Antonio Water System is flushing some of the most expensive water in Texas down a Northside creek as it struggles to finish a connection pipeline that has run nearly $80 million over early cost estimates. Originally set to be finished in mid-April,...