The City of Roma has secured $15 million from the Texas Water Development Board to rehabilitate its 30-year-old water treatment plant. The project will restore full capacity, improve water pressure, and ensure clean tap water for 20,000 residents by 2029.

After the San Marcos City Council voted to deny a rezoning proposal from a data center, some water advocates took a breath, but the fight to preserve Hays County water isn't over.

The Advanced Water Purification Facility is at the core of Liberty Hill’s long-term water plan, according to city officials. The purpose of the facility will be to purify reclaimed wastewater to meet drinking water standards and reuse it for city water customers.

Austin Water is also working to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in state and federal low-interest loans.

Longtime Port Aransas gator, known as Boots, was relocated after people kept approaching the 12-foot alligator.

Central Texas could see a major new source of water as the Lower Colorado River Authority considers building another reservoir to help meet rising demand fueled

In 2011, Texas experienced its worst drought since the seven-year drought of the 1950’s. In Central Texas and across the Hill Country, rivers ran dry and the Highland Lakes reached historic low levels.

Long-awaited upgrades are coming to the city of China’s wastewater treatment plant after the community was approved for more than half a million dollars in funding through the American Rescue Plan Act. Residents said the investment is overdue. 

The projected cost of the proposed Inner Harbor desalination plant is $978.7 million, according to new information confirmed by District 3 Councilmember Eric Cantu.

Burnet County will focus on future flood prevention by using recently-acquired state funds for a series of flood warning sirens across county waterways.

Mathis is moving fast to find water as the drought pushes Lake Corpus Christi to the brink.

The City of Port Arthur has lifted a boil water notice that was issued earlier this week after a water main leak caused low pressure in part of the city.

"Without water it is hard to grow things and it's hard to feed cattle. Usually about this time things would be green already," said Caiden Garcia.

Allen City Council approved a design contract with Halff Associates for the Carter Court, Stacy Ridge, and Summerside Lift Station Rehabilitation Project at a Feb. 24 meeting. The project includes replacement of equipment at each pump station.

The project would add new gates to the dam, increasing its discharge capacity from 10,000 cubic feet per second to 75,000 cubic feet per second.

Some residents have only been on the water for a few years, while others have spent their lives there. However long they've been there, one thing remains the same: they've never seen it this bad.

Footprints left by dinosaurs 113 million years ago have survived floods, droughts and shifting riverbeds in North Texas. Now, residents say they could face a new threat: a proposed industrial data center complex the size of a small city.

The Nueces River Authority approved $1M for pipeline design tied to the Harbor Island desal project, with water delivery targeted for December 2029.

Drinking water around the District of Columbia hasn't been contaminated. But scientists say the environmental damage could be severe.

"People don't think it's serious because they can turn their faucet on and boom there's water. They don't realize the reservoirs are dropping tremendously," said Paul Miller.

With all the talk of water and growth, some farmers in rural Central Texas are worried about their futures.