Jan 24, 2019: Updated 10:45 a.m. Jan. 25: This story has been updated to include information from the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District’s news release

Source: UPDATED: Conroe City Council approves settlement agreement in lawsuit against Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District | Community Impact Newspaper

For the last several years, scientists have warned of the sinking ground beneath cities along the Gulf Coast.Known as subsidence, it?s a strange phenomenon that gradually deflates the surface of the ground as groundwater is pumped from beneath. The threat has been mostly noted in cities along the coast, where underground soils are largely composed of a sandy clay. Central Texas lies 130 miles from the coast, but that doesn?t mean parts of it ? Bastrop and Lee counties in

Source: Could groundwater pumping cause the ground to sink? It’s possible, scientists say

Source: Report: Texas coal power plants leaching toxic pollutants into groundwater | The Texas Tribune

An environmental group found that all of Texas? coal-fired power plants have polluted groundwater with multiple chemicals, including arsenic, which was detected at 13 of the 15 sites.

Source: Report: Power Plants are Leaking Cancer-Causing Toxins into Groundwater Across Texas

AUSTIN, Texas ? Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered three new species of groundwater salamander in Central Texas, including one living west of Austin that they say is critically endangered. They also determined that an already known salamander species near Georgetown is much more endangered than previously thought. Writing today in [?]

Source: Central Texas Salamanders, Including Newly Identified Species, At Risk of Extinction – UT News – UT News

In a research finding likely to establish another front in the long-running, contentious battle over habitat preservation in Central Texas, biologists at the University of Texas have identified three new species of groundwater salamander in the region, including one living west of Austin that they say qualifies as endangered.The research team also determined that a salamander species previously identified near Georgetown, one that already has federal protection as a threatened species and that

Source: Scientists discover 3 new Central Texas salamander species

The sprinkler system sprayed streams of water into an already soaked yard, splattering droplets into standing mud puddles. This was last week, a cold, rainy morning on the final day of 2018, and a year that saw this area receive its second highest annual rainfall amount ? 56 inches ? in recorded history. And someone?

Source: Straws. Straws Everywhere – Fort Worth Weekly

A 2015 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study shows that water use in the U.S. is at the lowest level in 45 years.

Source: U.S. Geological Survey shows water use lowest in 45 years

The Lower Colorado River Authority has denied a request to disclose its hydrological findings in a groundwater dispute with rural landowners in Bastrop County.The LCRA has requested to pump 25,000 acre-feet of groundwater, or?8.1 billion gallons, per year from?the Simsboro formation in the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer for customers in Bastrop, Lee and eastern Travis counties, a pursuit that has prompted disquiet among landowners concerned about how that extraction would affect domestic and

Source: LCRA declines to reveal water science behind Bastrop County groundwater case

On Wednesday, a number of landowners, water companies and others gathered in the Bastrop Convention & Exhibit Center to request a contested hearing in the case against the Lower Colorado River Authority?s (LCRA) permit to drill wells in Bastrop County during a preliminary hearing held by the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH).

Source: Party status granted in LCRA case – Elgin Courier: News