Water

Water is a valuable resource that should not be wasted. The North Texas area is rapidly growing in population and by 2070, the Region C Water Planning Group anticipates that the total water demands for the region are to increase 71 percent. On a region-wide basis, Region C does not have enough water supplies to meet the anticipated demands, with the vast majority of deficits occurring in the municipal category. Below are case studies, tools, and resources offering guidance to local governments, educational institutions, and public and private entities on strategies to reduce water use and increase water efficiency across many sectors.


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To ensure exterior surface cleaning practices align with stormwater runoff prevention goals.
Intermediate
To ensure snow and ice management practices align with stormwater runoff prevention goals.
Intermediate
To ensure storm drain maintenance practices align with stormwater runoff prevention goals.
Intermediate
To ensure street maintenance and repair practices align with stormwater runoff prevention goals.
Intermediate
To ensure utility installation practices align with stormwater runoff prevention goals.
Intermediate
To ensure practices related to waste management, storage, and disposal align with stormwater runoff prevention goals.
Intermediate
To ensure outdoor material storage practices align with stormwater runoff prevention goals.
Intermediate
Kid's Corner: Fun ways to learn how to save water. Get kids involved in conservation efforts.
Intermediate
The Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center's mission is to inspire the use of native plants and to improve water quality, provide habitat for wildlife, and enhance human health and happiness.
Basic
Watershed Protection Plans (WPP) are useful to water quality planning because they contain management measures to reduce pollutants and public education and outreach programs that were developed with stakeholder input. These measures and outreach programs may be useful ideas to others.
Intermediate
Watershed Protection Plans (WPP) are useful to water quality planning because they contain management measures to reduce pollutants and public education and outreach programs that were developed with stakeholder input. These measures and outreach programs may be useful ideas to others.
Intermediate
LEED certifies that any type of building (residential, commercial, industrial) is considered resource-efficient.
Advanced

The Elmer Avenue Neighborhood Retrofit transformed a typical residential street into a model "green street" by incorporating stormwater best management practices (BMPs) that capture and filter runoff from a 40-acre area. 

The webinar provides useful tips for the management of urban wildlife to protect water quality.
Intermediate
To bring awareness to water quality and water supply issues impacting Black communities.
Basic
To educate students grades 3-8 about the impacts climate change can have on their communities.
Basic
For community groups, nonprofit organizations, tribal governments, national parks, and local, state and federal agencies.
Basic
The National Weather Prediction Service serves as an interactive, centralized gateway to the ever-expanding library of water data and forecast information.
Basic