Texas water quality and septic systems
- August 10, 2020
Over 2.2 million Texas homes and businesses depend on septic systems, but these can cause human health and water quality problems if they aren’t working right. Read more to learn ways to find potential funding aid for repairing or replacing failing systems.
TWRI releases the 2019 Annual Report
- May 6, 2020
The Texas Water Resources Institute has published its latest Annual Report, focusing on accomplishments and project highlights from 2019.
TWRI’s Winter 2020 txH2O published
- March 16, 2020
We recently published the Winter 2020 issue of our magazine, txH2O, highlighting the connection between water and health, including pathogens, poverty, PFAS and other water-health issues and developing potential solutions.
Protecting Our Water
- March 10, 2020
Institute works with partners to improve water quality in East Texas
Partnership coordinates septic system repair, replacement
- February 10, 2020
The Texas Water Resources Institute has been working with the Attoyac Bayou Watershed Partnership for the past decade to improve water quality, which includes repairing and replacing septic systems.
TWRI program spotlight: Attoyac Bayou watershed
- February 7, 2020
The Attoyac Bayou Watershed Partnership was developed with interested local stakeholders to better understand the sources of high E. coli levels in the watershed.
Improving water quality with septic system repair, replacement in Attoyac Bayou
- January 15, 2020
The Attoyac Bayou Watershed Partnership is coordinating a septic system repair and replacement program for residents in the Attoyac Bayou watershed to help improve and protect water quality.
East Texas watershed efforts to improve water quality seeing positive results
- August 8, 2019
Texas Water Resources Institute staff report positive results in one East Texas watershed and substantial progress in another while working with stakeholders and a team of university researchers and agency staff to improve water quality in the region’s many watersheds.
Partnership presents workshop, offers assistance for septic system repairs, replacements
- September 1, 2017
The Attoyac Bayou Watershed Partnership is addressing homeowner septic systems in the watershed by hosting a training on maintaining septic systems and initiating a repair and replacement program to help improve and protect the watershed’s water quality.
