This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering land subsidence in surprising Texan cities, sedimentation’s effects on reservoir firm yields, and low planetary albedo’s connection to aerosols and increased temperatures.
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outlook+water: La Nada settles in, drought contracts (but is expected to remain), and hurricanes expected to be active
Drought conditions (D1–D4) decreased to 39% of the state from 53% of the state four weeks ago; statewide reservoir storage increased to 77.7% full, up from 77.2% four weeks ago and about 7 percentage points below normal for this time of year. La Niña remains in neutral conditions, which are favored through December (with a hint of La Niña this winter). Drought is expected to remain over the next 3 months where it exists. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects an active hurricane season.
talk+water: Dr. Bridget Scanlon
In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, discusses Multidecadal drought impacts on the Lower Colorado Basin with implications for future management with author, Dr. Bridget Scanlon, Research Professor at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin.
q&a+water: Rick Ellis
In this issue’s Q&A, Texas+Water Editor-in-Chief Dr. Todd Votteler interviews Bryan McMath, who was named Executive Administrator of the Texas Water Development Board in September.
think+water: Detention basins, well integrity, and AI-driven flood statistics
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering the role detention basins play in protecting groundwater, contributing factors in well integrity failures, and AI’s data-driven probabilistic flood mapping.