April 24, 2024
This paper focuses on the complexity of both systems that are designed to manage water resources differently with specific emphasis on where surface water and groundwater interact.
News Releases
March 19, 2024
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
February 15, 2024
An analysis of springflow across Texas by Robert Mace and Nahemi Galaviz of The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University found that 30 percent of springs had dried up since 1975.
January 24, 2024
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.
September 5, 2023
FORT STOCKTON, Texas (Sept. 5, 2023) — Belding Farms, a pecan grower in Fort Stockton, filed a petition with the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District (GCD) to strengthen rules intended to protect the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer that underlies Pecos County and feeds Comanche Springs.
May 9, 2023
Belding Farms, a 60-year-old pecan farm in Fort Stockton, has taken legal steps to halt renewal of a groundwater permit to export water out of Pecos County to protect its water rights and those of all others and to ensure sustainability of the aquifer.
November 30, 2021
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.
April 26, 2021
Drought conditions are now confronting 75% of Texas, putting more pressure on critical water supplies.
Thirty-two cities or water supply entities in Texas are under voluntary or mandatory water restrictions. Flows in a majority of river basins across South Central Texas have dropped below or far below normal. And the Edwards Aquifer, which stretches across thousands of acres in South Central Texas and serves San Antonio, has dropped nearly 10 feet below average levels for March...
January 28, 2021
Every five years groundwater regulators in Texas set policy and philosophy for managing the aquifers...
April 24, 2024
This paper focuses on the complexity of both systems that are designed to manage water resources differently with specific emphasis on where surface water and groundwater interact.
March 19, 2024
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
February 15, 2024
An analysis of springflow across Texas by Robert Mace and Nahemi Galaviz of The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University found that 30 percent of springs had dried up since 1975.
January 24, 2024
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.
September 5, 2023
FORT STOCKTON, Texas (Sept. 5, 2023) — Belding Farms, a pecan grower in Fort Stockton, filed a petition with the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District (GCD) to strengthen rules intended to protect the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer that underlies Pecos County and feeds Comanche Springs.
May 9, 2023
Belding Farms, a 60-year-old pecan farm in Fort Stockton, has taken legal steps to halt renewal of a groundwater permit to export water out of Pecos County to protect its water rights and those of all others and to ensure sustainability of the aquifer.
November 30, 2021
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.
April 26, 2021
Drought conditions are now confronting 75% of Texas, putting more pressure on critical water supplies.
Thirty-two cities or water supply entities in Texas are under voluntary or mandatory water restrictions. Flows in a majority of river basins across South Central Texas have dropped below or far below normal. And the Edwards Aquifer, which stretches across thousands of acres in South Central Texas and serves San Antonio, has dropped nearly 10 feet below average levels for March...
January 28, 2021
Every five years groundwater regulators in Texas set policy and philosophy for managing the aquifers...