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EM-115 Status and Trends of Irrigated Agriculture in Texas
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-09-12)
Irrigation is critical to our food production and food security and is a vital component of Texas’ productive
agricultural economy. Texas ranks third in the United States in both agricultural acres irrigated and ...
EM-110 Bacterial Source Tracking: An introduction for laboratories and public agencies to the foremost tool for identifying sources of fecal pollution
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-02-24)
According to the 2010 Texas Integrated Report, there are 303 bacterially impaired waterbodies in Texas. Nonpoint sources (NPS) of pollution greatly affect water quality. Identifying and assessing sources of fecal pollution ...
Developing a World Wide Web (WWW) site that public school teachers and students can use to bring environmental resources on the Internet into the classroom
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2001)
EPA priority issues addressed in this project included 1) providing public school teachers
and students with hands-on exposure to the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW)
and increasing their capability to use these ...
EM-111 Bacterial Source Tracking: Learn why Bacterial Source Tracking is the foremost tool for identifying sources of fecal pollution
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-02-24)
There are 273 bacterially impaired water bodies in Texas. Identifying and assessing sources of these bacteria — E. coli, Enterococcus, fecal coliforms — is critical to properly determining risk to water recreation, developing ...
EM-112 Approaches to Watershed Planning in Texas
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-06-12)
Water is used for various purposes, whether it is for drinking, swimming, fishing, irrigating or any other reason. To meet the needs of all these uses, the state is required by Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act to set ...
EM-117 Best Management Practices for Water Quality: Agriculture in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014)
The Arroyo Colorado Watershed is 706 square miles and runs from McAllen to the Lower Laguna Madre. The water body is impaired for dissolved oxygen, bacteria and legacy pollutants. In 2007, local stakeholders developed and ...
Metazoan Parasite Community Structure in Bluegill (lepomis macrochirus) as an Indicator of the Impact of Urbanization on 2 streams in San Antonio, Texas
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2002)
Our project explored the possibility of using metazoan fish parasites as an indicator of deleterious effects on stream biota due to non-point source pollution, which is associated with urbanization and development. Experiments ...
EM-116 Urban Landscape Water Use in Texas
(2013)
Urban-municipal use is the second largest category of water use in Texas. Within this use category, lawn and landscape water use is a significant, but largely unmeasured, component. Landscapes are important components of ...
An Analysis of the HSPF Model for Predicting In-stream Fecal Coliform Concentrations
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2002)
Saludo Creek in Bexar County, Texas is one of 65 streams listed as impaired water bodies in the Clean Water Act’s 303(d) list for its high concentration of fecal coliform bacteria (TNRCC, 1998). The restoration of water ...
The Pecos River Ecosystem Project
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2002)
The banks of the Pecos River in Far West Texas are currently covered with dense stands of Saltcedar (Tamarix spp.), not uncommon to an increasing number of rivers in Texas. Saltcedar is known for its heavy consumption of ...