This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering the role detention basins play in protecting groundwater, contributing factors in well integrity failures, and AI’s data-driven probabilistic flood mapping.
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lege+water: May 2025
Every month during the 89th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature, Dr. Todd Votteler provides an update on water-related legislation.
outlook+water: La Niña fades away, drought contracts (but extreme drought expands), and the next three months favor hot with dry conditions for the High Plains
Drought conditions (D1–D4) decreased to 53% of the state from 68% of the state four weeks ago; statewide reservoir storage increased to 77% full up from 76% four weeks ago and about 8 percentage points below normal for this time of year. La Niña has transitioned to neutral conditions, which are favored through October (with a hint of La Niña this winter). Drought is expected to improve over the next three months except in Far West Texas. Is an Atlantic Niña fixin’ to form?
talk+water: El Paso Water’s Gilbert Trejo and Christina Montoya-Halter
In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, discusses El Paso water resources with El Paso Water’s Gilbert Trejo, Vice President of Operations and Technical Services, and Christina Montoya-Halter, Communications and Marketing Manager.
lege+water: April 2025
Every month during the 89th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature, Dr. Todd Votteler provides an update on water-related legislation.