Environment
Why Environmental Planning Matters for Community Health
The air a neighborhood breathes, the water it drinks, and the heat and floodwater it must live with are all planning decisions long before they are health outcomes.
Environment
The Texas environment is, before anything else, a story about water: how much falls, where it collects, and how a growing state stretches it through a drought. This desk follows the State Water Plan and the reservoirs and aquifers behind it, the conservation habits that decide how far each acre-foot travels, and the air, weather, and land choices that shape daily life across Texas. Resilience here means planning for the driest year on record, not the average one, and paying for that margin before the sky forces the question.
Environment
Water, Drought and Resilience Across Texas
Texas plans against the driest stretch it has ever recorded, and resilience is the work of closing the gap between that benchmark and a state pushing toward 51 million people.