Robert E. Mace discusses several factors that leave Texas dangerously unprepared for the next drought of record….
All Droughts Are Not Created Equal
OSCAR and CLARA: The Future of Climate-Water Resilience
There’s something about water-reuse projects that give me a treated-wastewater-slurping grin when I tour them, and it was no different last week when I elatedly toured the City of Austin’s on-site, building-scale wastewater reuse demonstration project during its ribbon cutting. The 2011 to 2015 drought gave Austin quite the scare as the Highland Lakes disturbingly…
Drawn to Citizen Science
The land cracked open. Crops and cattle withered. Lake beds blistered. Without shame or mercy, the 2010-2011 Texas Drought haunted my year of 6th grade. Watching this disaster unfold every night on the news left me with nightmares and questions. What can we do to stop this from happening again? What will we do if…
One Water for Texas: The What and Why
Change does not come easily when the old way of doing things worked so well for so long that it has simply become “the way it’s done.” This rings especially true with a service as basic as water. Our water management practices are buried under decades of local policies and state and federal regulations, millions…