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The Department of Civil Engineering and Tarrant Regional Water District’s $2.3 billion project to build a new 150-mile-long pipeline will bring more water to the North Texas region.

Dallas and the Tarrant Regional Water District have launched an awareness campaign called Reverse Litter, meant to turn around this litter trail so the tons of trash end up in cans rather than polluting waterways.

After four years of fighting high water rates and pressure problems that led to inoperable fire hydrants, Blue Mound could eventually take over the private water system that serves the city.

State debt was $40.6 billion and local debt was $192.8 billion in 2011 up from $86.8 billion in 2001.

Here’s your chance to show off your photographic talent and enter your pictures of the Trinity River corridor’s natural beauty in a unique contest. The Trinity River Photo Contest is free to people of all ages.

The city has been under a contract for about 20 years with Veolia Water for water and wastewater services. However, after years of discolored water and problems in the water and wastewater treatment plants, the council decided to take back operation of its services.

Burnet County commissioners and other Highland Lakes stakeholders Tuesday were briefed on the findings and results of a county-commissioned economic impact study and were told there is hard data that shows lake fluctuations, especially long-term droughts, have tremendous negative consequences for Burnet and Llano counties.

The old joke about wanna-be football players (“He’s not very big, but he makes up for it by being slow”) can be applied to the proposed Lake Columbia.When compared to some Texas Lakes, Lake Columbia, if it’s ever built, will not be large. It will have about 95 miles of shoreline and a volume of 195,000 acre feet. If and when constructed, an earthen-style dam (with above-grade fill) will be 6,800 feet long and just under 70 feet high.

On Wednesday, Sept. 26, the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. delivered a letter to the Lower Colorado River Authority providing it with formal notice of a breach of contract and requesting that LCRA cure its breach within 30 days.

Water, water might potentially be everywhere, but the committe putting together the city's 2012 Water Supply Plan is balancing the cost against methods of securing water for Lubbock's future.

The city of Conroe has been invited to participate in a project designed to quantify and measure the ongoing water conservation efforts in the region.

For a massive operation involving the movement of millions of cubic yards of silt, the dredging at Lake Worth is a surprisingly quiet project.

Due to safety concerns, Keep Lewisville Beautiful has postponed its annual Trinity Trash Bash clean up.  The event was originally scheduled for 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday; it will now be held at the same time Nov. 17. KLB made the decision to postpone the event because of West Nile virus concerns.