Drought conditions (D1–D4) decreased to 19% of the state from 30% of the state four weeks ago; statewide reservoir storage decreased to 79% full from 80% four weeks ago, about 4 percentage points below normal for this time of year. The El Niño Southern Oscillation remains in neutral conditions, which are favored through March. The rainfalls we saw in the Hill Country were at least one in 1,000-year events.
Sections
talk+water: #95 – John Neilsen-Gammon
In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, discusses extreme weather with Texas State Climatologist, Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon. He is a Regents Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University and also serves as the Director of the Southern Regional Climate Center.
talk+water: #94 – Vanessa Puig-Williams, Jeremy Mazur, and Carlos Rubinstein
In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, discusses the 89th Texas Legislative session with Vanessa Puig-Williams, Senior Director, Climate Resilient Water Systems at the Environmental Defense Fund, Jeremy Mazur, Director of Infrastructure and Natural Resources Policy at Texas 2036, and Carlos Rubinnstein, Principal at RSAH2O, LLC.
talk+water: Martha Pskowski
In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, discusses water challenges in the Rio Grande with Martha Pskowski, a Texas reporter for Inside Climate News based in El Paso.
think+water: Water and the White Shaman, biochar and cucumbers, and a pain in the ash
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering water’s role in indigenous cosmology, biochar’s ability to boost saturated hydraulic conductivity, and an invasive beetle species wreaking havoc on ash tree populations.