Articles and Reports

March 19, 2024

Case Study of Groundwater Management Issues at the Forefront of Large-scale Production from a Confined Aquifer: The Vista Ridge Project

Continuing population growth, increasing demands for water, and declining water availability are statewide water concerns in Texas. The development and movement of water from where it is located to where it is needed entails benefits to the receiving area and concerns for the area of origin. The Vista Ridge Project serves as an on-point example and case study of issues
January 24, 2024

Improving Water Planning in Texas

This report describes the important and inextricable linkage between DFC development, Modeled Available Groundwater (MAG) determination and how this does or does not inform regional and state water planning efforts.
November 30, 2021

Five Gallons in a Ten Gallon Hat: Groundwater Sustainability in Texas

Robert Mace of The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University found that Texas plan to unsustainably produce groundwater from more aquifers in the future, reducing the number of aquifer systems being produced sustainably from 13 to 5.