Event: Texas Water Safari
The Texas Water Safari, known as the world's toughest canoe race, begins June 14 and continues for four days and four hours, as the competitors paddle from Spring Lake in San Marcos to Seadrift on the Gulf Coast. Full Story
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Event: "Keep Rivers Flowing" Webinar No. 3
A webinar on June 25 titled "Keeping Rivers Flowing: Innovative Strategies to Protect and Restore Rivers" will focus on the historic Murray-Darling Basin agreement in Australia, which has lessons for Texas. Full Story
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Dallas Water Plans Stir Debate in Northeast Texas
Plans by the city of Dallas to create a new water source in northeast Texas by damming the Sulphur River face resistance from environmentalists and from farmers and timber companies that hold much of the land that would be flooded. Full Story
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Olympic Sailors Wary of Water in Rio
An unexpected problem has emerged for sailors training for the 2016 Olympics in Rio's Guanabara Bay: dirty water. Full Story
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Skeleton Found in Underwater Cave in Mexico Yielding Secrets
Sam Meacham, a researcher with the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, is part of the archaeological dive team exploring the Hoyo Negro site in Mexico's Yucatán. Full Story
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![The discovery of a well-preserved human skeleton deep within a submerged Yucatán cave is shedding new light on the debate over who were the first Americans, and a Texas State University researcher Sam Meacham of The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment is part of the archaeological dive team.]()
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U.S. House Authorizes 34 Water Projects
The U.S. House has passed the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, authorizing 34 water projects around the country, including two major projects in Texas. Full Story
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Barton Springs Drainage System Said to Be Failing
A drainage ditch designed during the 1960s to protect Barton Springs from the contaminated runoff from surrounding homes and roads is apparently not functioning adequately, thus threatening Austin's beloved icon. Full Story
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Scientists Find Mississippi River System Failing to Buffer Nitrates
Hydrogeologists at the University of Texas at Austin have found that the Mississippi River network's natural filtering process is close to full capacity, meaning that the network's ability to filter out nitrates as water passes through sediment along its banks may be inadequate. Full Story
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Event: "Keeping Rivers Flowing: Innovative Strategies to Protect and Restore Rivers" Webinar
A webinar sponsored by the Sierra Club's Lone Star Chapter, the National Wildlife Federation and the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment will be held May 29. Full Story
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![The Brazos River as it flows past Glen Rose on Aug. 2, 2013. Drought conditions have led to a significant decrease in water levels in the river. Use of the river by cattle farmers along its route is another factor leading to a decrease in water quality and shore erosion is.]()
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Event: Southwest Stream Restoration Conference
The Southwest Stream Restoration Conference will be held May 28-30 at the Hyatt Regency in San Antonio. The conference will feature presentations on stream restoration and management to prepare streams for the stresses of the future and on the ecological impact of stream restoration. Full Story
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