Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Feb 12, 2024 | Community, Drought, Groundwater Resources, Legislature and Regulation, Linked Stories, News, Regional Planning, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
At a joint meeting Friday, conservation agencies shared their plan to act against water utility company Aqua Texas for allegedly failing to comply with local conservation guidelines. Read more from Mercedez Hernandez with KXAN here.
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Feb 10, 2024 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, Linked Stories, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
Environmental advocates are pushing back against the city of Kyle’s plan to expand its wastewater treatment plant — a step city leaders say is necessary to keep up with rapid population growth. Kyle — which is in northern Hays County, between San Marcos and Austin...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Feb 1, 2024 | Community, Drought, Groundwater Resources, Linked Stories, News, Planning and Development, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
Parts of Central Texas, including San Antonio, have seen a rainy start to 2024, with more than six inches of precipitation in January. But the Bandera area has seen far less — just two inches in the past month. And that matters across the region, because many of the...
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Jan 31, 2024 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, Linked Stories, News, Planning and Development, Water Planning, Water Resources
Many of America’s critical sources of underground water are in a state of rapid and accelerating decline, a new study has found. More than half of the aquifers in the United States (53 percent) are losing water, according to research published Wednesday in Nature....
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Jan 31, 2024 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, Legislature and Regulation, Linked Stories, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
Two consecutive summers of brutal heat and drought have left some parts of Texas with notably low water supplies going into 2024. A wet year or a well-placed hurricane could quickly pull these regions back from the brink. But winter rains have disappointed so far....
Posted by Leah Cuddeback | Jan 31, 2024 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, Legislature and Regulation, Linked Stories, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
After sitting dry for 222 days, Jacob’s Well, the iconic artesian spring near Wimberley, has started to flow again. From mid-June through mid-January, the popular swimming hole was a miserable sight: the water level had receded below the lip of the well’s mouth,...
