For over twenty years, Texas Living Waters has worked incessantly to improve flow protections across the state. Our founding members were key drivers behind the passage of 2007’s historic Senate Bill 3, a policy framework that brought an adaptive environmental flows protection process to all major river basins and bays in Texas.
We have since been a central part of efforts to ensure SB 3 is implemented as intended. We have published numerous reports and studies detailing the need for reforms to the protection process. We regularly testify at legislative hearings and meet with lawmakers to keep the pressure on to improve the flow of freshwater through our river ecosystems and on to our fragile bays and estuaries. They are all a Texas treasure and we work to ensure they will thrive for future generations.
Browse our projects, publications, and resources below to find out more about our work on this issue. And contact one of our listed experts to find out more and get involved!
PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS
A Winning Trade: How Water Markets Can Benefit Texans & the Environment
Delivering on the Unrealized Potential of Senate Bill 3
Ensuring One Water Delivers for Healthy Waterways: A Framework for Incorporating Healthy Waterways into One Water Plans and Projects
Ensuring One Water Delivers for Healthy Waterways
Examining Bay Salinity Patterns and Limits to Rangia cuneata Populations in Texas Estuaries
Bays in Peril: A Forecast for Freshwater Flows to Texas Estuaries
RESOURCES
KEY TEAM MEMBERS
DASHBOARDS
On paper, Texas is home to a robust set of proactive, adaptive protections of freshwater flow levels in river basins and bays and estuaries. In practice, these protections vary greatly between basins and bays.
Dive into our up-to-date, one-of-a-kind dashboard to see the status of flow protections in each major individual basin in Texas.
