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The Texas Water Development Board has awarded the city of Amarillo $60 million for planning and design of the Hollywood Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion.

The City of Georgetown has completed its new South Lake Water Treatment Plant, a $272.4 million project that city leaders say will double the community's water treatment capacity as the city continues to grow.

Corpus Christi officials are easing up on stringent water conservation restrictions nearly two years after implementing them due to severe, prolonged drought. City officials announced they were lifting Stage 3 restrictions during a news conference Tuesday morning, saying that recent rises at Choke Canyon Reservoir and Lake Corpus Christi have been enough to scale back the conservation measures first announced in December 2024.

Residents have 30 days after July 24 to submit public comments to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or request a public meeting about the Bayshore Desalination Facility before officials make a final decision on the project's wastewater discharge permit.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a temporary halt to new data center grid connections, mandating that state regulators audit each project before it can advance.

A Nueces River Authority project could expand Corpus Christi's water supply, but the Texas governor has done little about the agency's financial problems despite choosing its board.

League City City Council voted at its July 28 meeting to apply for a $9 million grant to fund the construction of a new water well, ground storage tank and booster pump station on the city’s west side.

Residents in the Southwestern Travis County Groundwater Conservation District (SWTCGCD) are no longer subject to mandatory reductions following a moderate drought declaration.

The City of Laredo Utilities Department will conduct wastewater system work. Work is scheduled from 7 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, in the 1300 block of Victoria Street.

Industrial wastewater from electronics manufacturing, metal processing and other sectors often contains two difficult pollutants at once: high levels of salt and toxic heavy metals. Current treatment methods typically address those problems separately, creating costly, complex systems that can produce hazardous brines or metal-laden sludge. Now a group of researchers at Rice University and Vanderbilt University have created an electrochemical platform that could do both jobs at once.

Arlington's proposed $769 million budget shows a surplus, but officials say a small tax rate hike may still be needed.

As more and more data center developers submit proposals to build in Texas, questions about how they will impact Texas' grid and contribute to drought conditions across the state are widespread.

A Waco farmer says a proposed wastewater treatment plant near his Chalk Bluff property could contaminate his well and end his organic pecan business.

After more than 20 years, and roughly four years after a key hurdle was cleared, the Mary’s Creek Water Reclamation Plant in west Fort Worth is taking a step toward breaking ground. At its work session meeting on Aug. 4, the Fort Worth City Council received an informal report on the selection of a construction contractor for the long-awaited plant.

The Laredo City Council addressed concerns Monday, Aug. 3, about data centers and their water consumption, hearing from community members before moving toward new regulations on industries that use large amounts of limited public resources.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department fisheries biologists are cautiously optimistic about the fate of aquatic life in the upper Guadalupe River following the July 16 flood, even as they continue monitoring species and habitat that were still recovering from last summer’s devastating July 4, 2025 floods.

For the first time since November 2021, Canyon Lake has reached full capacity, following a series of large storms that caused flooding along the Guadalupe River, the lake’s main tributary.