Groundwater in Texas

Maps

• Texas Water Development Boards's (TWDB) Texas Aquifer Maps

Statewide Water Well Databases

• Information about the state's five online water well databases can be found on the TGPC's Water Wells webpage.

Reports

• TCEQ's Surface Water Quality Monitoring (see the current Texas Integrated Report for the current Groundwater Assessment)
• TGPC's Joint Groundwater Monitoring and Contamination Report (see the TGPC Publications webpage for the current version)
• TWDB has Groundwater Reports for each county.
• State Water Plan
• Regional Water Planning
• TWDB's Groundwater Data Viewer
• Texas Water Commission (now TCEQ) Report 89-01 Ground Water Quality of Texas - An Overview of Natural and Man-Affected Conditions (1989)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions in Texas (2005)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Evaluation of Arsenic Contamination in Texas - Final Report (2005)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer Study - Final Contract Report (2011)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Evaluation of Groundwater Nitrate Contamination in Major Aquifers in Texas - Final Contract Report (2016)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Evaluation of Groundwater Nitrate Contamination in Public Water Systems and Major and Minor Aquifers in Texas - Final Contract Report (2017)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Assessment of Arsenic in Groundwater and Water Supply Systems in Texas - Final Contract Report (2018)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Update on Groundwater Arsenic Levels in Major and Minor Aquifers in Texas - Final Contract Report (2019)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Assessment of Fluoride in Groundwater and Public Water Supply Systems in Texas - Final Contract Report (2020)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Assessment of Fluoride in Groundwater and Public Water Supply Systems in Texas - Final Contract Report (2021)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Assessment of Nitrate in Groundwater and Public Water Supply Systems in Texas - Final Contract Report (2022)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Updated Assessment of Nitrate in Groundwater and Public Water Supply Systems in Texas - Final Contract Report (2023)
• UT-Bureau of Economic Geology Update: Assessment of Arsenic in Groundwater and Water Supply Systems in Texas (2024)

White Papers

• Influences of Natural and Man-Made Sources of Contamination on Water Quality Trends in the Seymour Aquifer: A 2007 Status Report
• Research into the Characterization of Brackish Water and Disposal of Desalination Reject Water in Saline Aquifers and Depleted Oil and Gas Reservoirs