What's New!
Mission:
To proficiently collect, maintain, and analyze electronic water planning data and to accurately and efficiently disseminate it to TWDB staff, the Regional Water Planning Groups, and to the citizens of Texas in order to facilitate the development of useful and relevant regional and state water plans.
History:
The Water Supply and Strategy Analysis Team was created within the Planning division during the TWDB's reorganization in 2003. In 2007 the Water Supply and Strategy Analysis Team joined with what was formally the Projections and Water Uses Survey Teams (now the Economic and Demographic Research and Water Use Surveys and Estimates Teams) to form the Water Planning Research and Analysis Section. The elevation of planning data to its own team and the joining of three data related teams into one section illustrates the emphasis placed on the management of data and the development of applications to facilitate collecting and disseminating state and regional water planning data
Products and Services:
Ad-hoc queries and reports from the Water Planning Database, review of electronic data sets in the Regional Water Plans and in Plan amendments, data extracts/compilations for TWDB State Water Plans, and data for Water Resources Planning and Information Loan Reviews and Water Science and Conservation Groundwater Management Plan Certifications. Web enabled applications available from the 2002 planning cycle including the Water Information, Integration, and Dissemination tool (WIID) and Volume II of the 2002 State Water Plan. Applications available from the 2007 planning cycle including the 2007 Regional Water Planning Data Web Interface (DB07). Applications available from the 2012 planning cycle including the 2012 Regional Water Planning Data Web Interface (DB12).
Data Developmet
The
development of electronic data by the state's 16 Regional Water Planning Groups (Planning Groups) is a five-year process that involves a coordinated effort between the TWDB, the Planning Groups, and the Planning Groups' contracted consultants. In the first phase of the planning cycle, the TWDB and the Planning Groups, in conjunction with other state agencies, develop population and water demand projections for entities using water in the state.
The Planning Groups then use these projections to develop their regional water plans and their electronic water planning data sets. Further data development by the Planning Groups includes determining how much water is available from water sources in the state ("availability"), how much of that water goes to each water-using entity ("supplies"), and whether each water-using entity will need additional water in the future ("needs") to meet their projected demands (water needs are determined by comparing projected supplies to projected demands).
The final phase of planning and data development requires the evaluation and development of water management strategies for entities that are predicted to have a future need or shortage. After the electronic data is prepared by the Planning Groups, the TWDB reviews it for quality assurance, standardization, and content. Once all electronic data is reviewed and approved by the TWDB, the resulting data is compiled into the Water Planning Database and used to prepare the State Water Plan. The current State Water Plan was published in January of 2007. The next State Water Plan will be published in 2012.
Staff
| Wendy Barron, Team Lead |
512-936-0886 |
email |
| Sabrina Anderson |
512-463-7336 |
email |
| Rene Rodriguez |
512-463-6749 |
email |
| Sabrina Pena |
512-463-8096 |
email |
: To help us in tracking and to facilitate communications on data requests, we now have a form for users to complete and submit. If you need data from any of the water planning databases, please complete the data request form and submit it to any of the Water Supply and Strategy Analysis team members. Team members and their contact information are listed on the form and also below.