Breaking news about water resources research and education at Texas universities

Texas Water Resources Institute establishes office to analyze critical water issues The Texas Water Resources Institute recently established the Office of Strategic Water Issues to provide non-biased, science-based analyses of critical water issues facing Texas, according to Allan Jones, the institute's director. [...] Geological Survey and the National Institutes for Water Resources for his research proposal, An Econometric Investigation of Urban Water Demand in the U. [...] Changes in freshwater inflows affect the water quality of a watershed because of the change in the amounts of inorganic and organic compounds. [...] Graduate student assesses accuracy of Soil and Water Assessment Tool Texas A&M University graduate student Xuesong Zhang is working with his advising professor Raghavan Srinivasan, director of Texas A&M’s Spatial Sciences Laboratory, to evaluate and improve the accuracy and reliability of the SWAT model or Soil and Water Assessment Tool. [...] Zhang worked to not only improve the accuracy and reliability of SWAT, but also to develop new programs and algorithms to assist the model in describing the hydrologic processes at the HRU scale more realistically.