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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-121 South Texas Irrigation Training Program Manual, 2016 Update
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2016)
Goal
• Equip irrigation managers and technical support personnel with information and resources to support improved
irrigation management and water conservation.
Objectives
1. Provide participants with core knowledge ...
EM-119 Considerations for adopting AMI and AMR: A comprehensive guide for water utilities
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2015)
When considering using Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)/ Automated Meter Reading (AMR) systems, every utility has different needs and will have varied experiences in making decisions about changes to its system and ...
EM-120 Utility Customer Profile Guide for Water Conservation Planning
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2015-12)
Conservation coordinators and managers often seek recommendations for best management practices (BMPs) that
produce the greatest amount of water savings at the least cost. In practice, it is difficult to create a hierarchy ...
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 ...