AUSTIN, Texas — One of the most attractive features in Austin is the scenic Colorado River that flows through the center of town, creating our familiar Lake Austin and Lady Bird Lake.

Water security across the Rio Grande and Colorado River basins faces a threat that is “no longer temporary but systemic,” ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Runaway floods are very much ... dams that regulate the Colorado River as it flows through Austin. A second dam east of downtown, the Longhorn Dam, was completed in 1960 and ...

The Colorado River, which flows from West ... water restrictions on Austin residents before going after the rice farmers or Gulf Coast fishermen. On the other hand, some Texas politicians ...