The Latest Breaking News from the Texas Water Development Board

Plagued by climate-driven weather extremes, communities that need help improving water quality are being left behind.

Flash floods like the one that swept down the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 4, 2025, can be highly unpredictable. While there are sophisticated flood prediction models and different types of warning systems in some places, effective flood protection requires extensive preparedness and awareness.

Most lawmakers — as well as Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick — want to invest big in water. Here are the proposals that would do it.

The state’s water supply faces numerous threats. And by one estimate, the state’s municipal supply will not meet demand by 2030 if there’s a severe drought and no water solutions are implemented.

Estimates say Texas loses 572,000 acre-feet of water every year, enough to supply Austin, Fort Worth, El Paso, Laredo and Lubbock combined for an entire year

About $45 million will go to Texas towns with fewer than 1,000 residents — a boon for municipalities without a viable tax base.

Many of the solutions are costly, putting them out of reach for small towns. But the region's most populous cities are getting innovative.

The lost water costs the cities millions and heightens the state’s water supply challenges.

Officials are worried that there’s arsenic in some of the estimated 13,500 private water wells in Ector and Midland counties.