{"id":32835,"date":"2013-11-21T10:24:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=32835"},"modified":"2013-11-21T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:24:56","slug":"water-policy-forum-tonight-at-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/11\/21\/water-policy-forum-tonight-at-ut\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Policy Forum Tonight at UT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32839\" alt=\"texas-water-journal-forum\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/11\/texas-water-journal-forum-620x252.png\" width=\"620\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/11\/texas-water-journal-forum-620x252.png 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/11\/texas-water-journal-forum-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/11\/texas-water-journal-forum.png 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>Now that Texas voters have given the green light to put serious money towards new water projects in the state, where do we go from here? How will projects get prioritized and funded? Will conservation be a properly-sized piece of the pie? What should we expect from state leaders going forward?<\/p>\n<p>Those are just a few of the subjects on tap tonight at a forum at the University of Texas at Austin, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/utexasesi.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/12\/water-politics-and-drought-remaking-texas-water-policy\/\">Water, Politics, and Drought: Remaking Texas Water Policy<\/a>.&#8217; The non-profit organization <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.tdl.org\/twj\/index.php\/twj\">Texas Water Journal <\/a>and UT&#8217;s\u00a0Environmental Science Institute are\u00a0putting together the event, which is free and open to the public:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/utexasesi.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/12\/water-politics-and-drought-remaking-texas-water-policy\/\">Water, Politics, and Drought: Remaking Texas Water Policy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, November 21, 7 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>University of Texas at Austin, Liberal Arts Building,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/maps\/main\/buildings\/cla.html\">CLA 0.128<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free and Open to the Public<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderator:\u00a0Todd Votteler, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists: \u00a0Brad Castleberry, Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle &amp; Townsend, P.C.; Ken Kramer, Sierra Club, Lone Star\u00a0Chapter; Dean Robbins, Texas Water Conservation Association; and Stacey Steinbach, Texas Alliance of\u00a0Groundwater Districts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And if you can&#8217;t be there in person, not to worry: the forum will also be<a href=\"http:\/\/new.livestream.com\/accounts\/6197204\/TexasWaterJournalForum\"> broadcast online through livestream<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Texas voters have given the green light to put serious money towards new water projects in the state, where do we go from here? How will projects get prioritized and funded? Will conservation be a properly-sized piece of the pie? What should we expect from state leaders going forward? Those are just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[61,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32835"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32849,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32835\/revisions\/32849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}