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In Texas, there are 98 of these districts, covering nearly 70% of the state, according to the Texas Water Development Board. The Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District has the following ...
The state’s flood plan shows which Texans are most at risk of flooding and suggests billions of dollars more are needed for flood mitigation projects. Texas’ first-ever statewide flood plan ...
During the 1990s, the Texas Legislature moved to make natural-resource protection more efficient by consolidating programs. In 1991, it combined the Texas Water Commission and the Texas Air Control Board to create the first version of the TCEQ, known as the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission until fall 1993. [3]
Texas Conservation Alliance shared some benefits of recycling water: Produces cleaner drinking water than ordinary tap water – like bottled water. It is more cost-effective than most other ...
The Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board (TSSWCB) is a state agency of Texas, headquartered in Temple. [1] The agency enforces the state's soil and water conservation laws and coordinates conservation and nonpoint source pollution abatement programs. The Texas State Legislature created the agency in 1939. [2]
Water is drawn from the lower Neches River and Pine Island Bayou in north Beaumont, with 21 large pumps delivering between 20,000 and 110,000 gallons of water a minute; it has a capability of delivering more than one billion gallons of water a day. Up to 1 × 10 ^ 9 US gal/d (3.8 × 10 9 L/d) maximum [1]
Even if the state were sufficiently funding its water plans, it would be running a 2.4 million acre-foot-per-year deficit, Sen. Charles Perry (R) said at the Texas Alliance of Groundwater ...
[8] Due to heavy rains on the Medina River basin and the lake itself in May 2016, Medina Lake was 100% full and 1.5 feet above its conservation pool as of June 1, 2016. [9] As of July 2024, the last time the lake was considered to be at full capacity was on July 7, 2019. [10] Since then, the lake levels have begun to decline once again.