AT: Texas Waters Webinar – One Water & Water Conservation

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One Water is an integrated planning and implementation approach to managing finite water resources for long-term resilience and reliability, meeting both community and ecosystem needs. Although similar to Integrated Water Resource Management, One Water fiercely advocates for equity and the environment while employing advanced urban water conservation techniques to achieve its goals. After the scare of the 2011 drought, Austin undertook a One Water-styled water planning approach to plan for 100 years in the future while considering climate change, resulting in a water plan with several advanced water conservation features such as community-scale storm water harvesting, sewer mining, and indirect potable reuse. With limitations in the state water planning process, other cities are considering similar planning processes, including Houston.

Robert Mace is the Executive Director and Chief Water Policy Officer of The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Geography at Texas State University. Robert has over 30 years of experience in hydrology, hydrogeology, stakeholder processes, and water policy. Robert has a B.S. in Geophysics and an M.S. in Hydrology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a Ph.D. in Hydrogeology from The University of Texas at Austin.

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