Regional Water Planning Data

What's New!

• The 2017 Regional Water Planning Application (DB17)  is being developed and launched in phases to collect data for the 2016 Regional Water Plans and the 2017 State Water Plan. The application is available to the consultants who are contracted by the Regional Water Planning Groups to enter data into the application. When the 2016 Regional Water Plans are approved and adopted, and all data has been reviewed, the data will be published on our website.
• The Water Supply and Strategy Analysis Data Request Form. To better serve your data needs, please use the form and send it to this email address: WRPDataRequests@twdb.texas.gov

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 during TWDB's reorganization in 2003. Our team is currently part of the Regional Water Planning Unit of the Water Resources Planning Division.

Products and Services:

• Queries and reports summarizing data from three, previous cycles of regional water planning.
• Review of the electronic data from each regional water plan and all plan amendments.
• Analyses and data summaries for the state water plan.
• Development of databases and internet applications for collecting and publishing data for each planning cycle.
  • 1st regional water planning cycle: The DB02 database and Volume II of the 2002 State Water Plan.
  • 2nd regional water planning cycle: The DB07 database and the 2007 Regional Water Planning Data Web Interface.
  • 3rd regional water planning cycle: The DB12 database and the 2012 Regional Water Planning Data Web Interface.
  • 4th regional water planning cycle: The DB17 database and the 2017 Regional Water Planning Application (in progress) and Amended Guidelines for 2016 RWP Data Deliverables (10/18/12).

Data Development

The development of electronic data by the state's 16 Regional Water 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 all water sources in the state ("availability"), how much of that water goes to each water-using entity ("supplies"), and, by comparing projected supplies to projected demands, whether each water-using entity will have a potential need for additional supplies in the future ("needs"). The final phase of planning and data development requires the evaluation and recommendation of water management strategies for water users who will have a potential need for additional supply.

After the Regional Water Planning Groups submit their electronic data, TWDB reviews it for quality assurance, standardization, and content. When the Regional Water Plans are approved by the TWDB, the resulting data is stored in a database and the data is published on our website. The electronic data collected from the Regional Water Planning Groups is ultimately used to prepare the state water plan. The current state water plan, Water for Texas: 2012 State Water Plan, was published in January of 2012. The next state water plan will be published in 2017.

If you have any questions, please contact Water Supply and Strategy Analysis Staff