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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.

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 permitting and regulations with Brooke Paup, Chairwoman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Drought conditions (D1–D4) increased to 33% of the state, up from 24% four weeks ago; statewide reservoir storage decreased to 73.9% full, down from 75.6% four weeks ago, about 6 percentage points below normal for this time of year. We are now a La Niña Advisory with a 55% chance of La Niña conditions continuing into the January-March season. Most of the state is projected to be in drought over the next three months.

This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications on a hydrological whodunits about species sorting vs. dispersal limitation, a thirty-year marine soap opera (the villain: heat and cloudy water), and how listening to the rocks can teach us about carbon storage.