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.
Sections
talk+water: Austin College’s Public Administration Symposium
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.
talk+water: Brooke Paup discusses her role as Chairwoman of the TCEQ and TWDB
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.
outlook+water: La Niña is here, the second month the rain stopped, and drought and The Blob are coming for us all
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.
think+water: Hyporheic homebodies, hot and cloudy corals, and carbon sequestration
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.