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Texas groundwater is legally and hydrologically complicated, and it is in increasingly high demand. In the newest issue of txH2O magazine, meet the researchers, local water professionals and educators working to help manage and protect Texas aquifers. From the intricacies of groundwater laws around Texas and the United States, to the widespread success of the Texas Well Owner Network, this issue covers some ground.

To cope with a growing population and increasing demand for water, a popular resort and residential complex in Terlingua told its residents that it would limit water sales. The eight-member board overseeing 200,000 acres of privately owned land and short-term rentals called Terlingua Ranch Lodge — about 70 miles from the Big Bend National Park — sells drinking and nondrinking water to permanent residents. Many rely on the association for their monthly supply.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.