by admin | Dec 2, 2014 | News, Rainwater Harvesting
Storing and using the rainwater that falls on your roof can improve the quality of your drinking water and free you from the restricted use of water for your landscape in time of drought. Cow Creek GCD has provided several video examples to show how it’s...
by admin | Dec 1, 2014 | Low Impact & Sustainable Development, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed)
The Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance has published “Watershed Stewardship for the Edwards Aquifer Region, a Low Impact Development Manual.” The manual was designed for developers, landscape architects, and all of those who live on, or are planning to build...
by admin | Nov 20, 2014 | Groundwater Resources, News
Groundwater rights have been hotly debated in Texas for as long as there has been the ability to pump it. Unlike surface water, which is owned by the state and held in trust for the public, Texas courts have ruled that groundwater is the surface owner’s vested private...
by admin | Nov 17, 2014 | Groundwater Resources, News, Water Planning
This Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment on Groundwater Depletion in California’s Central Valley explores California’s drought and the depletion of it’s Central Valley aquifer due to agricultural over-pumping. With dwindling reservoirs here in Central Texas and ever growing...
by admin | Nov 13, 2014 | Groundwater Resources, News
by Environmental Stewardship Landowners Bette Brown, Andrew Meyer, Darwyn Hanna, as individuals, and Environmental Stewardship, a non-profit organization, filed a petition on November 7 in State District Court in Bastrop County, seeking to reverse a decision by Lost...
by admin | Nov 10, 2014 | Groundwater Resources, News, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed)
Do you live in karst? About 25% of the US and the planet’s land surface is karst. Karst areas are the world’s most diverse, fascinating, resource-rich, yet problematic terrains. They contain the largest springs and most productive groundwater supplies on Earth. They...
