For centuries, people have relied on rainwater harvesting to supply water for household, landscape, livestock, and agricultural uses. Before the advent of large centralized water supply systems, ...

Groundwater, along with surface water, is important for maintaining the viability of the state's natural resources, health, and economic development. The projected doubling of the state's population ...

The North East Texas Regional Water Planning Area encompasses all or parts of 19 counties. Largely rural and characterized by numerous,small communities and some medium-sized municipalities, the ...

Lake Fork Reservoir is located about five miles northwest of Quitman in Wood County on Lake Fork Creek and Caney Creek, tributaries of the Sabine River. Though most of the reservoir is in northwestern ...

TWDB staff is available to work with utility managers in providing on-site water audit assistance. TWDB staff is able to perform consultant type work and review the water audit worksheet with utility ...

Texas has 367 miles of coastline within which 21 river basins terminate, bringing fresh water from surface run-off, rivers, and streams into individual bays. Here, bounded by barrier islands, the ...

Do I need to register my water well, and if so, how do I do that? Private water well owners in Texas do not need to register their well unless the property falls within the jurisdiction of a ...

Various state agencies support drought response in Texas through their own work and through collaborative efforts as part of councils, task forces, and other collective endeavors. The TWDB offers ...

Base Level Engineering (BLE) is an efficient modeling and mapping approach that aims to provide technically credible flood hazard data at various geographic scales such as community, county, watershed ...

Before you can start entering a well or plugging report you must associate to the driller who drilled or plugged the well. Click Drillers List on the left menu. To add a driller to the list, click the ...

The TWDB has created funding opportunities to assist water and wastewater utilities to create and implement asset management plans. While much of the funding is directed to small, rural utilities, ...

Mountain Creek Lake is located about four miles southeast of Grand Prairie in Dallas County, on Mountain Creek, a tributary of the West Folk, which is a tributary of the Trinity River. The Lake is ...