The City of Austin is planning for the future… and it needs your help. Our city’s water utility, Austin Water, is currently in the process of developing Water Forward, a 100-year plan that will ensure that Austin has a diversified, sustainable, and resilient water future into the next century. It's a...
Water. For human beings, it's pretty much the most important resource out there. But who is in charge of managing it? Who is in charge of making sure we don't run out of it? Who owns the water? In Texas, these are some pretty complicated questions...
It's only been a few months since Hurricane Harvey brought record amounts of rainfall to Texas and already, more than 40 percent of the state is in a moderate to severe drought. As the Texas Tribune reports, these huge swings in rainfall totals are driven by climate change. In an...
Sponsored Post - from the Save Our Springs Alliance Celebrate Barton Springs and 25 years of its protection this Friday, December 8th from 6pm to midnight the Save Our Springs Alliance Holiday Party. The event will include food, live music, a photo booth, crafts for kids and...
If you're a consistent reader of AEN or a follower of local news, you've been reading a lot about CodeNEXT lately. (And if you haven't, that's okay too. As a reminder, CodeNEXT is the city’s effort to rewrite its land development code, which is basically a rule book for the city, explaining what...
Last year, the controversial Dos Republicas coal mine was given permission to renew and expand its wastewater permit. Why does that matter? The people First of all, several Native groups have come out in strong opposition to the coal mine, saying that it's operating on sacred ancestral land and that they...
A flash flood watch has been issued for the Austin area from Friday afternoon through Monday morning as a result of Hurricane Harvey. The storm is expected to hit the Gulf Coast of Texas on Friday and bring anywhere from 8 to 20 inches of rain to Central Texas (with the heaviest rainfall coming east of I-35). Local officials...
Earlier this summer, zebra mussels were discovered at Lake Travis. Now they've made it to Lake Austin. Staff from Texas Parks and Wildlife and the City of Austin first made the discovery of adult zebra mussels (attached to marina floatation devices and a barge near the Walsh Boat Landing) earlier this month. More...
It's getting hot out there! Not only are the rising temperatures uncomfortable, but they also put a lot of stress on our water supply, as the heat makes thirsty plants and lawns require more and more water. That's why Austin Water is offering you the chance...
After months of back-and-forth, the EPA has officially withdrawn its objection to the City of Dripping Spring's permit to to discharge up to 995,000 gallons of treated sewage into Onion Creek each day. Why does that matter? As a reminder, the permit application has raised a lot of concern here in Austin because Onion Creek flows...