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He's doing well and has tons of great ideas 🙂

Larry is great!

The 2025 #TCEQ Public Drinking Water Conference had a session on #weather. The bottom line: it seems like Texas is done with rains for a while and the #HurricaneSeason is expected to be above average.

The House Committee on Culture, Recreation, and Tourism is holding an invited testimony hearing on flood response and preparedness to floods this morning
#TxLege #FloodPolicy #TexasFloods

$1.2B Texas desalination project on hold Work on the Corpus Christi water treatment project has been delayed until the end of August, after city council members declined to approve a new design contract for Kiewit.

#SeawaterDesalination #WaterSupply #TexasWater

The House Committee on Disaster Preparedness & Flooding held a public hearing this afternoon. While all 5 bills in the agenda were related to flood response, it was encouraging to hear that flood prevention bills are coming up. Hopefully our legislators make right decisions.
#TxLege #FloodPolicy

Happening now! Lots of discussions about flood response, while long-term flood prevention seems to be overshadowed this special session.
#TxLege #FloodPolicy

Texas House Democrats flee the state in bid to block GOP’s proposed congressional map The lawmakers’ absence means the lower chamber won’t have enough members present to function, stalling passage of a draft map Democrats have condemned as a political power grab.

Texas House Democrats fled the state Sunday in a bid to block a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional seats in the U.S. House next year from passing. bit.ly/4ooW2R2

‘With What Water?’: Texas, Mexico, and the Disappearing Rio Conchos Drought has hollowed out Chihuahua’s Conchos Valley and bred civil unrest as South Texas demands the water it’s owed.

Earlier: Trapped between the treaty and the drought, many Conchos Valley residents find themselves in an increasingly dire situation. As one Mexican farmer put it, “When the water goes down, everything goes down with it.”

How Trump Is Transforming the U.S. Government’s Environmental Role The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.

Fun fact: reversing science won't reverse climate change

#ClimateChange #Environment #CleanAir #CleanWater #EnvironmentalPolicy

The West's data centers suck (water and power) - High Country News From simple searches to chatGPT, the big digital buildup threatens the grid and water supplies.

Google’s data centers withdrew 8.65 billion gallons of water in 2023 worldwide. Meta’s withdrew 1.39 billion

Except to have your water supplies rationed in the not too distant future because AI that has also possibly taken you job needs the water to profit corporations

www.hcn.org/issues/57-8/...

Lt. Gov. Patrick has no right to be mad over Kerr County judge's absence Nobody is blameless here — whether based in the Texas Hill Country or in the Capitol.

Nobody is blameless here — whether based in the Texas Hill Country or in the Capitol.

Texans don't want this. capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/...

I've watched the previous hearing at the Capitol and about 7 hours of the one in Kerrville. If you've watched both in full, has anyone ever mentioned climate change? 🤔

I watched some heartbreaking hearings this week in Texas. Then I looked at this face 😍 We keep going!
#Positivity #Pets #NeverGiveUp

Texans spoke about the gerrymandered maps, but have they been heard?
#TxLege #Redistricting #PublicVoice

capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/...

"...HARC estimates that data centers in Texas will consume 49 billion gallons of water in 2025. They also project that by 2030, that number could rise up to 399 billion gallons, or 6.6% of total water use in Texas." #TexasWater #AIDataCenters #WaterConservation #WaterPolicy

Texas is redrawing congressional map for GOP gains, House Republicans acknowledge States can draw electoral maps for partisan gain, but not if it dilutes the power of voters of color, courts have found.

We're cursed to live in interesting times

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HB 4 is being heard right now. Proposed congressional redistricting is a power grab that breaks up Texas communities and distracts from real problems like devastating floods we are still recovering from. It's a bad time to focus on division. #TxLege

house.texas.gov/videos/22418

In this op-ed, I highlight the pressing need to prioritize investment in fixing failing water infrastructure before spending substantial amounts of taxpayer dollars on unproven new water supply solutions #TexasWater

The Massive Energy Requirements of Treating Texas’ Oilfield Wastewater One company wants small nuclear reactors to power the energy-intensive process of purifying vast volumes of toxic “produced water” for use in agriculture and industry.

New from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org: As Texas stares down a water shortfall, its leaders are looking at vast volumes of brown, briney oilfield wastewater as a hopeful source of future supply. They don’t have many other options.

Lawmakers push to spend billions of dollars for water projects and debate which ones to prioritize Gov. Greg Abbott has made water a priority for this legislative session. Lawmakers will debate whether to invest more into new water supplies or repairing old, leaking pipes around Texas.

Fund new water supplies or fix leaky pipes? #TxLege is weighing its options, with various bills proposing different approaches and key arguments continuing to evolve
#TexasWater #WaterPolicy

Texas Senate Video: Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs

SB 7 - a big #water infrastructure bill by Sen. Perry - is being heard by the Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs today. Don't miss this important discussion:
senate.texas.gov/videoplayer....

#TCEQ just denied all public requests for reconsideration and contested case hearing relating to the permit approval of the Inner Harbor Seawater Desalination plant, giving a green light to start construction of the first large-scale seawater desalination facility in Texas.

One of the items on the #TCEQ agenda this morning is the Inner Harbor #Seawater #Desalination plant in Corpus Christi (Item 4)
www.tceq.texas.gov/agency/decis...

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2025 #TxWaterDay at the Capitol
#TXWaterCaucus #TxWater

YouTube video by Texas Impact Rep. Harrison asks questions of the Texas Water Development Board on their hiring practices

If you washed your hands, showered, cooked, bathed your kids, or simply enjoyed a glass of water today - that's because #TWDB made sure that you could safely do it. This agency is the lifeblood of Texas and deserves better. I'm proud of Chairwoman Stepney! #TxLege

Texas House Committee of Appropriations is discussing the budget for natural resource agencies today
#TxLege

Texans want a stronger energy grid. That means more renewables, not fossil fuels | Opinion Texans need to be careful about getting swindled again over billions of public dollars being funneled into new private gas-fired power plants.

"Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s budget outlook report once again includes a surplus: close to $24 billion. That’s not the state’s money. That’s our money. We need to spend it wisely. One area that still needs more investment is #energy."

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