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Every month during the 89th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature, Dr. Todd Votteler provides an update on water-related legislation.

This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering microplastics in bays and estuaries, microplastics in Texas rivers, and arsenic concentrations in Texas aquifers.

In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, discusses Austin water resources and the 100-year water plan with Shay Ralls Roalson, Director of Austin Water, and Marisa Flores Gonzalez, Program Manager for Austin Water's Water Forward Forward Plan.

Early projections suggest an active Atlantic hurricane season. Those epic rains in the valley did nothing for the Rio Grande reservoirs. Drought conditions (D1–D4) increased to 68% of the state from 49% of the state four weeks ago; statewide reservoir storage stayed the same at 76% full, about 8 percentage points below normal for this time of year. We remain in La Niña conditions with a 62% chance of a return of neutral conditions in the June-July-August season. Drought is expected to remain and expand over the next three months leaving only the easternmost part of the state drought-free.