This paper reviews many of Texas's water equity and sustainability challenges, assesses existing local and statewide policy and planning efforts to address these concerns, and identify gaps and suggestions for approaching these issues.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate toolkit serves to improve people’s ability to understand and manage their climate-related risks and opportunities, and to help them make their communities and businesses more resilient to extreme events.
The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) encourages local governments to support solar energy projects within their communities as a strategy to mitigate the load on conventional power plants and increase grid resiliency. One way to support solar is to become designated as a SolSmart community. SolSmart is a national designation program recognizing communities supporting solar growth and helping to reduce the barriers to solar adoption.
