Texas’ water supply storage exceeded 80% capacity this week in the aftermath of devastating, deadly flooding, sending ...

Water levels at the two international reservoirs that store the river water supply for South Texas reached record lows last year, and water levels continue to hover around 20%.

A sweeping Texas bill designed to avert the looming possibility of a water crisis passed a final legislative hurdle Friday and now heads to the governor’s desk. Senate Bill 7, authored by Sen ...

Groundwater — water that is trapped between rock formations under ground — makes up more than half of Texas’ overall water supply. The state water plan projects a decline by 32% by 2070, ...

Regulators are also gathering information supplied by the Texas Produced Water Consortium, a research initiative consisting of five pilot projects established by lawmakers in 2021 to study ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed two major bills into law on June 18, launching a landmark $20 billion investment aimed at tackling Texas' growing water shortages. Final funding approval for part of ...

Texas property owners can use nearly as much water under their land as they want. That’s unlikely to change even as the state approaches a crisis.

LUBBOCK — The Texas House on Tuesday approved a key piece of legislation that brings Texas one step closer to investing $1 billion annually to address the state’s water shortage.

Texas lawmakers are debating how prescriptive to be in legislation that would spend about $1 billion a year over the next decade to secure the state's water supply.

This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. MISSION — More than 100 years ago, developers lured farmers to the Rio Grande Valley by marketing the ...