Source: ‘A really bad spot’: Water shortage threatens agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley

The Georgetown City Council is discussing making updates to the development code, which was created more than 20 years ago, in order to conserve more water.

Source: New construction in Georgetown may have to landscape differently as city attempts to conserve water

“They found it soon enough. I mean, after they saw it on the news,” rancher Schuyler Wight said.

Source: RRC response underway at leaky orphan well in Pecos County

When the water runs out, there are no good options. One of the poorest regions in Texas faces an uncertain future.

Source: The Decline of the Rio Grande | The New Yorker

After decades of local inaction, Kansas lawmakers are pushing for big changes in irrigation to conserve water and save the Ogallala Aquifer.

Source: ‘Time for a Reckoning.’ Kansas Farmers Brace for Water Cuts to Save Ogallala Aquifer

Another wet season helped improve California’s snow drought, but other parts of the western United States have not been so fortunate.

Source: Western US faces snow drought as summer heats up | Courthouse News Service

AUSTIN, Texas —

Much of Central Texas is no longer in a drought thanks to recent rainfall. Right now, the U.S. Drought Monitor shows residents in several counties – including Travis, Williamson, Bastrop, Burnet and Llano – are out of drought conditions. So why are many areas, like Austin, still under drought water restrictions? 

Source: With much of Central Texas out of drought, why do water restrictions continue?

Source: West Texas Water Research Center Coming to Sul Ross State University | Morning Ag Clips

Wise County Commissioners are seeking clarity on the requirements for groundwater availability studies in the platting process with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Pct. 2 Commissioner Kevin Burns will join Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District (UTGCD) Manager Doug Shaw June 24 to urge the TCEQ to provide a definition on what constitutes as

Source: County seeks clarification from TCEQ on groundwater studies – Wise County Messenger

Affected farmers in Idaho say the order to shut their water off was issued after they already paid to plant and fertilize their crops.

Source: Idaho farmers say water curtailment order will dry up land, push them out of business   • Idaho Capital Sun