The Texas Water Resources Institute’s Urban Water program (formerly Urban WISH) is a Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service initiative centered around urban water management.
Based at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Dallas, our team works to address the challenges of urban water security and stormwater management for North Texas and beyond. We focus our research and education on
- Blue-green infrastructure and nature-based solutions
- Citizen science
- Environmental education
- Water conservation
- Long-term urban hydrology
Stakeholder Engagement to Advance Urban Water Initiatives
Our team identifies and creates opportunities to engage diverse stakeholders in meetings and workshops at the Texas A&M AgriLife Center in Dallas, in communities across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and in urban centers across Texas. Collaboration with local stakeholders in urban water systems is critical to co-creating responsive and impactful research and extension programs for urban water solutions that will advance economic and environmental sustainability across the state. This adaptive approach employs stakeholder-driven strategies to better identify how our researchers and extension personnel can support the community and ensure a sustainable urban water future.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex provides a critical place to examine the epic challenge of urban water systems in a fast-growing metropolitan area under dynamic water-climate conditions. Therefore, our efforts are strategically aligned with regional needs while engaging larger scientific communities across the globe, working at the forefront of urban water sustainability.
