As our population booms, Texas grows hotter and drier. How might we stop the squandering of our dwindling water supply?

Source: Who’s Wasting Our Water

A Texas Hill Country quarry recently hit a major milestone years in the making. Despite hundreds of residents trying to halt the controversial project, it now appears to be moving forward outside New Braunfels in Comal County.

Source: Vulcan Materials’ Hill Country quarry gets key permit despite locals’ concerns

Wastewater recycling and aquifer storage will need to become more common statewide.

Source: El Paso Reuses All the Water It Can. The Rest of Texas Could Heed the Lesson.

Overdevelopment, and the rules that encourage it, could literally sink communities such as Katy, where the land is subsiding.

Source: Thirsty New Subdivisions Have Made the Texas Groundwater Crisis Plain to See

OPINION: Generally, states regulate water quantity while the federal government regulates water quality through the Clean Water Act. By failing to approve or even consider an alternative way to resolve

Source: OPINION: Supreme Court failed to address states’ rights in water dispute case | Opinion | abqjournal.com

Source: Fellow regulators to review RRC injection program

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. International Boundary and Water Commissioner Maria-Elena Giner this week told South Texas leaders in private that Mexico intends to send some of the water it owes but that won’t be enough, they worry, as the region and farmers suffer.

Source: IBWC head tells South Texas leaders Mexico will send ‘some water’ (fox5sandiego.com)

The Odessa City Council approved the budget to replace nearly 200 water valves and 17,000 feet of pipe.

Source: Odessa will spend $25 million to fix water infrastructure | The Texas Tribune

This summer, a short-lived curtailment order brought a dispute to a head between farmers irrigating from the Snake River and those dependent on groundwater. Without a long-term plan to share water, the cuts could come back next year.

Source: In Idaho, Water Shortages Pit Farmers Against One Another – Inside Climate News

HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) – Some Hays County residents and water activists are concerned a proposed wastewater plant for a new development, which would be built in an environmentally sensitive region, could affect the water quality in the area. 

Source: Neighbors, water activists worry a Hays County development will threaten water supply (KXAN)