Texas is a state with a wealth of natural beauty, including a remarkable bounty of flowing streams and rivers and productive bays and estuaries along the coast. The health of those streams, rivers, and estuaries is at serious risk from flow depletion in the absence of effective flow protections.
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 to our fragile bays and estuaries. They are a Texas treasure and we work to ensure they will thrive for future generations.
PUBLICATIONS
Course Correction: How Texas Can Unlock the Unrealized Potential of Senate Bill 3 For Achieving Meaningful Environmental Flow Protection
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
Texas Water Conservation Scorecard 2020
Ensuring One Water Delivers for Healthy Waterways
Texas Water Conservation Scorecard
Facts About Texas Water (English & Spanish)
Examining Bay Salinity Patterns and Limits to Rangia cuneata Populations in Texas Estuaries
Bays in Peril: A Forecast for Freshwater Flows to Texas Estuaries
Grassroots Organizing on Texas Water Issues
RESOURCES
KEY TEAM MEMBERS
DASHBOARDS
Environment Flows Dashboard
See detailed, up-to-date status reports on key protection levels in each major basin in Texas.
