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Treating water as a commodity
neglects fundamental differences between the two resources that we ignore
at our own peril, Sharlene Leurig, the water program director at Ceres, writes in TribTalk.
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by Colin McDonald and Jessi
Loerch
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In this week’s Q&A, we
interview James Griffin, the Bob Bullock Chair in Public Policy and Finance
at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service.
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The Texas Water Journal Forum,
focusing on the early history of disputes over use of the Edwards Aquifer,
will be held Jan. 20 at the JC Kellam Building at Texas State University in
San Marcos.
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Experts on water conservation
and agriculture say stewardship of private rural lands is
the key to the future of conserving water in Texas, where 95 percent of the
land is privately owned.
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Naturalists from the Dallas/Fort
Worth area joined Andrew Sansom of the Meadows Center for Water and
the Environment for a tour of Big Spring where
the Texas Stream Team is monitoring water quality.
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The drop in groundwater levels in
the El Paso area following a decade-long drought in the Upper Rio Grande
Basin is particularly alarming because the rate of recharge in the area is
too slow to compensate for the growing rate of pumping.
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Farmers in the Upper Rio Grande Valley are
struggling as water authorities have been forced to cut allotments because
of the severe drought.
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Using data from the Texas Water
Development Board's reservoir status tracker,
our auto-updating map visualizes the current state of Texas reservoirs.
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