Water 101
Taking water from a river, lake, or underground water source to water crops.
What is irrigation?
An award that features rainwater collection projects.
Texas Rain Catcher Awards
She sends you emails about TWDB Security Awareness Training.
Angela Gower
This website lets water users statewide take an up-close look at the 2022 State Water Plan.
Interactive State Water Plan
The only natural lake in Texas.
Caddo Lake
Water that has soaked into the earth, often between saturated soil and rock.
What is groundwater?
The 55th Texas Legislature created the TWDB in this year.
1957
The state Geographic Information Officer
Richard Wade
A statewide earth observation data collection network.
TexMesonet
The longest river in Texas running for a total of 1,896 miles.
Rio Grande
Small rivers or streams that flow into larger rivers.
What are tributaries?
Meaning of the acronym SWIFT.
State Water Implementation Fund for Texas
She served as the director of legislative affairs for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Chairwoman Brooke Paup
Shows real-time weather information and includes the estimated depth of water in hypothetical flooding scenarios.
Flood Decision Support Toolbox
River that separates two states and is part of the title of a great college football rivalry.
Red River
An area where freshwater from rivers and saltwater from the oceans mix to make moderately salty (saline) water.
What is an estuary?
The year the Texas Legislature and Governor Abbott greatly expanded the TWDB's role in flood planning and financing.
2019
The TWDB's Chief Financial Officer
Rebecca Trevino
It is comprised of over 1 million frames of photos covering all parts of Texas from dates as far back as the 1920s.
Historical Imagery Archive
A barrier island on the Gulf Coast of Texas that is 18 miles long, stretching from Corpus Christi to Port Aransas.
Mustang Island
A relatively flat area next to a river's banks that experiences periodic flooding.
What are floodplains?
This program provides water and wastewater utilities with financial, managerial, and technical capabilities necessary to apply for assistance from the TWDB.
Water Utilities Technical Assistance Program (WUTAP)
These three staff members make up the Support Services team.
Kelly Burton, Deon Coles, John Chavez
Our mission: To create an intuitive system to index, document, search, and access Texas water data.
Texas Water Data Hub
The largest reservoir in Texas.
Toledo Bend Reservoir