Did you know that 53.5% of Texas’s drinking water comes from aquifers? There are 4 major aquifers in Central Texas, all of which are essential to sustaining our municipalities, livestock, agricultural irrigation, and diverse wildlife. In this article, SBCA aims to dig deep into our region’s aquif...

We have some great news to report in our years-long campaign against Hays Commons, a proposed subdivision that Milestone Community Builders wants to construct over the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone. Last week, the Austin Planning Commission declined to consider a proposal to let Milestone build i...

  If you wanted to build a big subdivision in a really bad place, where would you put it? Would you build it in a place with lots of rocky gaps and cracks on the ground that would allow dirty surface water to seep into the Edwards Aquifer, which provides water for hundreds of residential wells a...