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The Texas Water Development Board has approved millions of dollars for rural water projects in Sabine and San Augustine Counties. The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) today approved financial assistance totaling $73,825,100 for water and wastewater system projects. 

The city of Allen will host a Water Quality Town Hall Meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Council Chambers at Allen City Hall, 305 Century Parkway. This meeting will provide information and answer questions about water quality, distribution and public safety standards.

WICHITA FALLS, Tx (RNN Texoma) -

Officials with the City of Wichita Falls are concerned about the risk of Zebra Mussels infesting area lakes. Oklahoma officials recently confirmed that Zebra Mussels are present in Lake Waurika.  The non-native mussel has the ability to attach to structures in a lake like boats, piping, and other things. They will then continue to grow and multiply and degrade the structure until it is no longer usable. Officials say should they infest area lakes, they would have to be controlled, increasing the cost of water supply which would increase the water bills of customers.

Only a state as big as Texas could have to deal with the simultaneous crises of both rampant floods and devastating drought.
The destruction of Hurricane Harvey and the massive infrastructure needs that it exposed along the Gulf Coast soaked up most of our attention recently, but vast swaths of the Texas Panhandle suffer from extreme drought, and the northern tip qualifies for the worst possible category: exceptional drought.
The problems our state is having with water - too much of it along the coast and too little of it in the Panhandle, West Texas and parts of Central Texas - should set the stage for next legislative session.
Last session saw only a handful of water bills, and it has become increasingly clear that Gov.

About 150 volunteers ventured out into the cold windy weather to help with a little spring cleaning and prevent pollution from reaching the Guadalupe River on Saturday.

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich questioned the trustworthiness of a local water district Thursday after learning it failed to test for potentially dangerous volatile organic compounds. 

Before a community meeting attended by hundreds of local residents — organized after her Facebook post criticizing the safety of local water — Brockovich said she would drop a "bomb." Then she revealed the testing violations, which were posted just a day earlier on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality website.

SAN ANTONIO- This week, Texas Parks and Wildlife will be stocking fish into neighborhood lakes across Texas. Two San Antonio lakes will be stocked with thousands of catfish beginning April 20. San Antonio's Southside Lions Park and Millers Pond will receive continuous stocking of catfish every two weeks through November.

Spring Hill has started investigating how to turn the water coming out of its wastewater treatment plant into drinking water.

The proposal to use treated wastewater in the drinking water supply is in its infancy and will take years before it becomes reality.

The city is in the very early stages of developing a plan to mix the water flowing out of the wastewater treatment plant with river water and send it through another treatment plant to produce drinking water. A statement from the city says it would use membrane filtration and ultraviolet light to ensure the safety of the water.

Residents who were flooded out of their homes during Hurricane Harvey could see drainage relief in their neighborhoods should their taxing entity choose to take advantage of a federal program that offers financial assistance to rural communities.

Monica Pierre, a representative with the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development, gave municipal utility districts a beacon of hope during a presentation at The Woodlands Drainage Task Force meeting on Tuesday, April 9. Pierre was offering MUDs and other agencies with drainage responsibilities in The Woodlands the opportunity to take advantage of a USDA loan guarantee for water and environmental type projects.

WICHITA FALLS - Just in time for lake season, city and state officials are warning boaters about the risk of zebra mussels.Oklahoma authorities confirmed the species in Lake Waurika last year and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Wichita Falls city officials are taking precautions, so the invasive species doesn't end up in more Texoma lakes.Tony Owens has spent most of his life fishing. Sometimes, he even braves the bipolar weather in hopes of catching a crappie.

The city of Early gave a tour of its new Wastewater Treatment Facility, and explained how the natural system will operate, and allow the city to reuse the water it would otherwise be charged for treatment of.

HEARNE, Tex. (KBTX) - Hearne city officials are pointing to the old valve system as the cause for the city shutting down the water Tuesday night in Hearne. A leak occurred while crews tried to switch out old valves for new ones before repaving some downtown roads.Water is flowing again, but low pressure is causing the city to comply with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality standards and call for a water boil notice."That will be for a couple of days," says Hearne City Manager John Naron. "When we get the results back from the lab we can rescind it."

Every year, #OfficialTRA and Texas Parks and Wildlife partner to harvest fish below Lake Livingston dam. The efforts helps stock striped bass and palmetto bass in Texas reservoirs across the state.

GOLIAD - In September of 2020, a landowner in Goliad County, watching a tropical storm approaching, will worry about the rain and the creek adjacent to his property. Is he in the flood plain? He will go to his computer, choose a certain website, enter his address and the map will zoom to his location which will supply his answers.