by Leah Cuddeback | Oct 21, 2022 | Groundwater Resources, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Regional Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
Schuyler Wight is a fourth-generation rancher who has raised longhorn cattle outside Midland for decades. Wight is no geologist, but over the years, he’s had to familiarize himself with what lies underground. Scattered across his sprawling 20,000-acre ranch are more...
by Leah Cuddeback | Oct 20, 2022 | Community, Groundwater Resources, News, One Water, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
For many Texans, “a day without water” is not an imagined experience—it’s just another day. Some communities have never had running water. For the rest of us, experiencing days without water has become the rule rather than the exception. The one-two punch of...
by Leah Cuddeback | Oct 18, 2022 | Community, Groundwater Resources, News, Planning and Development, Water Planning, Water Resources
After nearly a year, the rapidly growing city of Dripping Springs is no longer under a development moratorium. That means commercial and residential development can, and has, resumed — but that doesn’t mean the small Hays County city’s growing pains are solved. Read...
by Leah Cuddeback | Oct 14, 2022 | Community, County Authority, Drought, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Water Planning, Water Resources
With midterm elections just around the corner, Texas voters must consider immigration, abortion access and gun violence. But when prompted, many worry about water, too. Eighty-four percent of Texas voters want the Legislature to create a fund to update aging water...
by Leah Cuddeback | Sep 27, 2022 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, News, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
As Texas faces an increasingly fraught environmental future from climate change, a new approach to conservation is growing. Drought conditions have created a two-pronged problem for Texas aquifers, natural bodies of water that move through porous rock underneath the...
by Leah Cuddeback | Aug 23, 2022 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, HCA in the News, News, Planning and Development, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
Kathleen Tobin Krueger stood on a low cliff last week, looking down on her family’s ranchland. Below her lay an expansive field laden with smooth white rocks, trees with exposed roots growing between them. There should be a full, flowing river here — there usually is...
