By Robert Mace, Chief Water Policy Officer at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment SUMMARY: Drought conditions expanded to the eastern and southern parts of Texas La Niña is gone and El Niño is expected to arrive this fall There’s a 70-percent chance of 10 to 16 named storms of which 5 to 9 could become hurricanes “It’s so dry that they’ve shut down lane 3 at the swimming pool.” (written June 18, 2018)
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Texas Stream Team: A Place for Citizen Scientists, Water Enthusiasts and River Rubberneckers
Picture yourself heading out to face the day. There may be that one special creek you pass over that prompts you to tap the brakes and turn your head to catch a brief glimpse of it. In turn, you remember to take a deep breath. Is the creek full… dry… raging… steady… healthy… or there at all anymore? You, my friend, are what we like to call a river rubbernecker. Would you like to get
outlook+water: May 2018
By Robert Mace, Chief Water Policy Officer at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment SUMMARY: Rainfall deficits continue to afflict most of the state. La Niña is expected to fade into neutral conditions (La Nada) by the end of May; there’s a growing chance of El Niño conditions arriving by winter. Drought conditions in west and south Texas are expected to persist and expand over the next three months, but wetter conditions are expected for
Cultivating Stewardship Through Nature Exploration
In 2017, I was named Chief Education Officer at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, overseeing educational and research efforts within the educational program at Spring Lake. I have over 25 years of experience developing, teaching and leading outdoor education experiences in informal and academic settings. One of the reasons I am so excited to come back to Texas after many years in the Southeastern United States, is the opportunity to work with
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Connecting Texas Water Data Workshop
Texas’ public and private companies, organizations, and agencies have collected water data for different purposes and at different scales for many years. These data are scattered across multiple platforms with different standards, often making important data sets inaccessible or incompatible. This leaves Texas’ decision makers, industries, landowners, and communities with significant amounts of data of limited use to support real-time decision making, development of opportunities for water security, or for modeling an accurate picture of