Water

Freshwater mussels provide a service to the ecosystem as filter feeders, and we’re addressing their threatened extinction by conducting research that will improve water quality statewide. Our goal is to save the mussel population while keeping our Texas water systems clean.

Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, dispersants were used to keep the oil from coming ashore by dispersing and diluting it.

Students at Texas A&M have launched a fundraising campaign called “Side by Side” to aid LSU students, faculty and staff members who’ve suffered damage or displacement from the catastrophic flooding.

There is growing evidence that intensive groundwater pumping under urban landscapes may be detrimental to water supplies and pose health problems.

Texas A&M University student Steven Brooke pursued an opportunity to serve, even though he was hospitalized at the time.

Preliminary totals indicate that August averaged about 5.69 inches of rain statewide, in a tie with 1914 for the wettest August on record.