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, ...

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.

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 ...

The first comprehensive estuarine water quality monitoring program supported by the TWDB was the Datasonde Program (also known as the Ambient Bay Water Quality Monitoring Program) which began in 1986.

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 ...

Lake Jacksonville (also known as Buckner Dam) is located about one-half mile southwest of Jacksonville in Cherokee County on Gum Creek, a tributary of the Neches River. The Jacksonville Municipal ...

The Flood Planning Data Hub is the source for information compiled by the TWDB for the regional flood planning groups. This includes resources from many entities. An index of GIS resources is ...

The Lower Colorado Regional Water Planning Area is composed of all or parts of 14 counties, stretching from Mills County in the Hill Country southeast to Matagorda County on the Gulf Coast. Most of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Region C Regional Water Planning Area includes all or parts of 16 counties. Overlapping much of the upper portion of the Trinity River Basin, Region C also includes smaller parts of the Red, ...