The latest water supply news from The Texas Tribune.
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: The longtime attractions at Aquarena Springs are being revived, satellite images show the impact of a Texas flood and an interview with John Nielsen-Gammon, the Texas State Climatologist. Full Story
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In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: A look at the surge in the market for bottled water, using underground reservoirs to manage water shortages and an interview with Gabe Collins and Hilmar Blumberg. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: New information points to health risks by cities that pump groundwater, reservoirs could be contributing significant amounts of methane gas and an interview with Stuart Henry, former Sierra Club attorney. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: Red tide has been detected in waters off Padre Island National Seashore, working with private landowners to set aside land for conservation and an interview with Brian Kamisato of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: a river protection group wants part of the San Marcos River declared a state park, the U.S. and Mexico cooperate on an aquifer study and drug resistant E. coli is found in French water samples. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: a new computer tool is designed to better forecast floods nationwide, waters highlighted during the Olympics are not alone in being polluted and questions surge after Louisiana floods. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: The Ogallala aquifer is being drained away, a coral reef off the Texas coast is the scene of a mass marine life die-off and an interview with Paul Choules of the Texas Desalination Association. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: Paving over wetlands around Houston raise risk of flooding, more worries about contaminated water sources and an interview with David Todd of the Conservation History Association of Texas. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: An El Paso Water Utilities purchase of a ranch stirs concerns about water exports, algae blooms hint at systems out of balance across the globe and an interview with Greg Story of the National Weather Service West Gulf River Forecast Center. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: New opportunities for water utilities to promote conservation, a new water quality study of the Pedernales River and an interview with Chelsea A.J. Hawkins of the Alliance for Water Efficiency. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: Ranchers have a new problem in frack ponds, water utilities find possible vulnerability to cyberattack and an interview with Tim Loftus of Texas State University and the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: Development has increased flooding dangers in Flash Flood Alley, amazing video of a recharging aquifer and an interview with Samuel Brody of the Texas A&M University at Galveston. Full Story
Texas is no stranger to drought and flooding, but at least it isn’t as bad off as California. Or is it, Ponderosa Advisors' Samantha Fox asks? Full Story
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Most of the water utilities in Texas need to "substantially increase" efforts to conserve water, according to a recent review of more than 300 city utilities by the Texas Living Waters Project. Full Story
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In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: Iron may pose a greater threat to drinking water than previously thought, contaminated wastewater found in water near "unconventional" oil and gas production site and an interview with Kenneth Cook of WaterCentric. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: Threats to water supplies may be the most damaging effect of climate change, three compounds often found in wells in rural agricultural areas may be linked to birth defects and evidence is found of earlier human habitation at Spring Lake. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: State lawmakers vow to champion a hurricane protection system for the Texas coast, Vista Ridge pipeline opponents win a small victory and an interview with water rights expert Charles Porter. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: A new online tool provides a comprehensive look at the state's 23 river basins, a deal is made to move forward the Vista Ridge pipeline project and an interview with Steve Young of Intera. Full Story
In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: A new report points to high levels of arsenic in many Texans' drinking water, El Niño wreaks havoc globally and an interview with Laura Huffman of the Nature Conservancy. Full Story
In the Roundup: Ted Cruz still thinks he can surpass frontrunner Donald Trump to secure the GOP presidential nomination. Plus, a new report on arsenic in Texans’ drinking water and a look at which sports make money for state universities. Full Story
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