Author: Todd Votteler

Todd Votteler is President of Collaborative Water Resolution LLC and Water Opinions LLC. He is the Editor-in-Chief as well as a co-founder of both the Texas Water Journal, and Texas+Water. Todd has 30 years of experience in Texas water resources management, policy, dispute resolution, and science. Votteler served as Special Master during the Edwards Aquifer Endangered Species Act litigation, Sierra Club v Babbitt et al. He has a B.S. in Natural Resources from The University of the South, an M.S. in Natural Resources from The University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Geography from Texas State University.

law+water: Mike Gershon

This month we explore issues on the topics of whether New Mexico is responsible for evaporation losses when storing and accounting for water earmarked for Texas under the Pecos River Compact, whether a groundwater marketer and its municipal partners will face a permit protest from a neighboring pecan farm several years after the initial permit decision or when the permit is automatically renewed and the ability of an existing utility to protect its service area (CCN) from curtailment.

talk+water: Christina Babbitt

Texas+Water Editor-in-Chief Dr. Todd Votteler talks with Christina Babbitt, senior manager of the California Groundwater Program at Environmental Defense Fund. She is working to advance and scale groundwater sustainability policies and practices across California’s Central Valley and beyond. In these efforts, Babbitt works to build partnerships and collaboration among the agricultural community, NGOs, agencies and water districts.