This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications on sequencing-based wastewater epidemiology, low-level cloud cover's contributions to absorbed solar radiation, and a data-efficient approach for acoustic leak detection.

Drought conditions (D1–D4) increased to 57% of the state, up from 54% four weeks ago; statewide reservoir storage decreased to 73.5% full, down from 74.2% four weeks ago, about 7 percentage points below normal for this time of year. We remain under a La Niña Advisory with a 75% chance of La Nada (neutral) conditions arriving during the January-through-March season. December had brutally low rainfall; most of the state is projected to be in drought over the next three months.

In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, moderates the 2025 Public Administration Symposium at Austin College in Sherman, Texas.

Drought conditions (D1–D4) increased to 54% of the state from 33% four weeks ago; statewide reservoir storage increased to 74.2% full from 73.9% four weeks ago, about 6 percentage points below normal for this time of year. We remain under a La Niña Advisory with a 61% chance of La Niña conditions continuing into the January-through-March season. Most of the state is projected to be in drought over the next three months.

In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, moderates the 2025 Public Administration Symposium at Austin College in Sherman, Texas.