Featured It’s Houston versus Texas in a looming court battle over climate rules (Bill Dawson – Texas Climate News, 1/14/2016) “…in a looming court struggle over federal climate-protection rules for power plants, it’s Houston versus Texas. A ruling is expected early this year on whether those Obama administration regulations, aimed at replacing many coal-fired plants with cleaner methods of producing…
Featured Why we all need to start drinking toilet water (Marcus Woo – BBC, 1/6/2016) “It’s been called ‘toilet-to-tap’ – much to the chagrin of water experts and managers. In some parts of the world, the wastewater that flows down the drain – yes, including toilet flushes – is now being filtered and treated until it’s as pure as spring water, if not more so. It might not sound appealing, but recycled water is safe and…
Featured ‘Do the math’ on water, food situation (Bill Barker, For the Express-News – Houston Chronicle, 1/3/2016) “The State Water Plan predicts that Bexar County water projects will provide enough water to meet household and business needs, but our entire 20-county water-planning district does not have enough agricultural water to grow the food we eat. It appears that a small…