Politicians involved with Water Issues in Texas

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Links to Water Agencies and Organizations:

• Nation-wide BOR
     The Bureau of Reclamation´s (Reclamation) Project Data Book. Compilations of this kind of information have been published beginning in 1941 under the title Summarized Data on Federal Reclamation Projects and continued until 1982 as Reclamation Project Data (Supplemental). These publications have served the continuing need for historical, statistical, and technical information on the projects of the Bureau of Reclamation by legislators, State and Federal officials, water users, engineers, educators, students, and others, in foreign countries as well as the United States, who are concerned about water resource development.
  
• LCRA
      The lower Colorado River basin is a semi-arid region subject to weather extremes: long droughts punctuated by major floods. The quality of life for millions of people depends on LCRA's ability to regulate the fluctuations in water resources, reduce the risk of flood damages, and balance demand among many uses of water. These often competing water uses include: drinking, business and industry, environmental health, agriculture and recreation.
  
• TNRCC Texas Water Districts
      Total Active and Inactive Water Districts: 1495
  
• California NCWA
      The Northern California Water Association (NCWA) was formed in 1992 to provide agricultural water suppliers, farmers and landowners a united regional voice on California water policy. NCWA seeks to protect our region's water rights and supplies by working with Congress, the State Legislature, state and federal agencies, and other stakeholders. NCWA's directors and staff are committed to constructive leadership in the pursuit of real solutions to California's water problems.
  
• New Mexico Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
       At the time of the Conservancy’s creation in 1923, the flow of the Rio Grande through central New Mexico fluctuated dangerously and unpredictably. Development and deforestation in Colorado since the 1880s had raised the levels of silt in the river, which led to increased sedimentation. These deposits then began to collect in the middle Rio Grande valley—where the river first widens and slows—thus raising the level of the riverbed and the surrounding water table. The shallow water table throughout the valley turned over 60,000 acres of farmland into swamps or alkali and salt grass fields. Frequent floods often destroyed entire villages; one scoured a path right through what is now downtown Albuquerque. Also, the existing irrigation systems were insufficient and primitive; many were hundreds of years old and desperately needed rehabilitation. The MRGCD was created to provide flood protection from the Rio Grande, and make the surrounding area hospitable for urbanization and agriculture.
  
• Arizona Irrigation Districts
      The Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) was created in 1980 and entrusted with the responsibility of implementing the Code and securing long term water supplies for Arizona. So progressive was the effort to manage Arizona's groundwater resources that in 1986 the Code was named one of the ten most innovative programs in state and local government by the Ford Foundation and Harvard University