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The Expanding Dairy Industry: Impact on Ground Water Quality and Quantity with Emphasis on Waste Management System Evaluation for Open Lot Dairies
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1993-08)
Major expansion of the dairy industry has occurred in the last 12 years in North Central Texas, especially in Erath County. For several decades, this area has been the location of small dairy farms with sufficient land to ...
Natural Salt Pollution and Water Supply Reliability in the Brazos River Basin
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1993-08)
The Brazos River Basin is representative of several major river basins in the Southwestern United States in regard to natural salt pollution. Geologic formations underlying portions of the upper watersheds of the Brazos, ...
A Farm-Level Evaluation of Agricultural Profit and Ground Water Quality: Texas Seymour Aquifer
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1994-12)
The Seymour Aquifer of north-central Texas is known to have elevated levels of nitrates. The design of economically sound policies for reducing agriculture's nitrate contribution to the aquifer suggests a need to evaluate ...
Freshwater Community Responses to Mixtures of Agricultural Pesticides: Synergistic Effects of Atrazine and Bifenthrin
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1991-04)
This study was an investigation of the effects of the herbicide atrazine and the insecticide bifenthrin on lake communities. The study was conducted in two phases: in phase one, we examined the effects of environmentally ...
Legal and Institutional Barriers to Water Marketing in Texas
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1994-11)
Texas has reached a crossroads in the management of its water resources. Water demand in the state continues to grow while the opportunity to develop new supplies continues to shrink. Urban growth, industrial and tourism ...
Spatial Water Balance in Texas
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1994-11)
Water availability is critical to the economy in the state of Texas. Numerous reservoirs and conveyance structures have been constructed across the State to meet the water supply needs of farmers, municipalities, industries, ...