The Latest Breaking News from Robert Mace

Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.

When storms roll in, water rushes downhill fast, gaining speed and force as it moves — often with deadly results.

Oil and gas companies are increasingly reusing “produced water” as West Texas aquifers are being depleted and the practice of injecting wastewater into disposal wells triggers more earthquakes.

Texas’ biggest single solution to providing enough water for its soaring population in the coming decades is using more surface water, including about two dozen new large reservoirs. But climate change has made damming rivers a riskier bet.

In Edwards Aquifer country, as goes the blind salamander, so go we all.