Remnants of buildings and artifacts from Old Bluffton are visible on land exposed as waters of Lake Buchanan recede in drought. The town was submerged when the lake was filled in 1937.

Malcolm Gerber has been watching his property along the Brazos River in Richmond quickly disappearing in the wake of major flood events.

Well control specialist Hawk Dunlap returns after getting a closer look at a geyser of salty water and oil spews out near a dry hole on Oct. 2, 2024, in Toyha.

Blue Heron Bay resident Steve Smithers pulls his kayak back on shore at his home on Aug. 20, 2024, in Montgomery. In 2020, the water was between 6-8 feet, now due to the now-shallow water, Smithers can no longer use his jet skis or boat that he bought for the water-front property.

Texans have an epic history of negligence and waste when it comes to water, and now that the state is facing the consequences, here comes Gov. Greg Abbott and Houston Mayor John Whitmire with an epically bad idea.

For months, Abbott and Whitmire have been quietly plotting how the state can buy the city’s water and transfer it to West Texas, my colleagues Benjamin Wermund and Abby Church reported on Wednesday. The idea is apparently one of the governor’s “totally transformative” measures to solve Texas’ anticipated water shortage.

It’s a harebrained scheme to solve a problem with a simpler solution: Texas lawmakers need to overhaul state water laws, and West Texans need to manage its water supply........

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