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think+water: Houston wastewater with measles, low albedo, and fractal noise in water loss
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.
outlook+water: Coal in December, our weak La Niña remains (but for how long?), and a hot-hot-hot start to 2026
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.
talk+water: Margot Molloy, Cam Wobus, and Emily Lewis talk water issues
In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, discusses water issues with Margot Molloy, Director of CK Blueshift, Cam Wobus, Principal at CK Blueshift, and Emily Lewis, Partner at Culp & Kelly.