The Rio Grande Basin covers the largest area in Texas of any major river basin. The basin's namesake river was called Rio Grande, "Big River," by early Spanish explorers. From its headwaters in ...

These estimates are produced using information from the annual Water Use Survey and water use estimates for irrigation, livestock, municipal, manufacturing, mining and steam-electric power categories.

1. What can the program do for you? The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, authorized by the Safe Drinking Water Act, provides low-cost financial assistance for planning, acquisition, design, and ...

The term "environmental flows" is used to describe the flow of water (both quantity and timing of flow) needed to maintain ecologically healthy streams and rivers, as well as the bays and estuaries ...

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) Groundwater Database (GWDB) contains information on selected water wells, springs, oil/gas tests (that were originally intended to be or were converted to ...

The San Jacinto Basin is one of the smallest river basins in Texas. The basin's namesake river derives its name from the Spanish word for “hyacinth.” From headwaters in Walker County, the San Jacinto ...

Reaching from the Gulf Coast to the Hill Country, the South Central Texas Regional Water Planning Area includes all or parts of 21 counties, portions of nine river and coastal basins, the Guadalupe ...

For centuries, people have relied on rainwater harvesting to supply water for household, landscape, livestock, and agricultural uses. Before the advent of large centralized water supply systems, ...

1. What can the program do for you? The Clean Water State Revolving Fund, authorized by the Clean Water Act, provides low-cost financial assistance for planning, acquisition, design, and construction ...

Do I need to register my water well, and if so, how do I do that? Private water well owners in Texas do not need to register their well unless the property falls within the jurisdiction of a ...

The TWDB generated template GIS geodatabases with multiple feature classes and tables for the RFPGs. Each planning group must fill the template geodatabase with relevant regional flood planning data.