Permian Basin oil and gas producers are producing far more water alongside their crude and natural gas than can be reused in their completions.

Source: Oil Report: Agriculture offers new arena for produced water reuse

Source: A Saudi business is leaving Arizona valley after it was targeted by the state over groundwater use

Most rice production in Texas is concentrated in a handful of counties south of Houston. A big chunk of rice acreage relies on canal water from the Colorado River in Texas. Last year, nearly 71,000 rice acres were idled in the state, a situation likely to repeat this year.

Source: Rice Acres Again Expected to Idle in Texas Due to Hold on Upstream Urban Lakes

MEXICO CITY — María Cristina Peláez holds up a bottle of a dark brown liquid. It looks like Coca-Cola and smells like sewage. This is the water that has come from her neighbor’s tap since 2022.

Source: Mexico City’s long-running water problems are getting even worse

Members of the Austin Integrated Water Resource Planning Community Task Force sent Austin City Council a message on Tuesday: they want council members to approve water reuse ordinances at Thursday’s regular council meeting.

Source: Water task force asks Austin city leaders to move ahead with water reuse strategies

Many of the underground water stores often critical to life in Texas, where rain is rare and the sun beats out of a pitiless sky, are running dry. 

Source: Declining Texas springs point to possible risks for state water supplies

Source: Feds release final Colorado river water conservation plan – Las Vegas Sun News

The Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District has taken a step back from the most severe drought stage – Stage IV – and after a brief stint in Stage III, has declared the area to be at Stage II Alarm Drought,…

Source: Conservation district has good news on drought level – Austin MonitorAustin Monitor

Source: No Highland Lakes water to coastal farmers for second straight year – DailyTrib.com