Giving Compass' Take:

• Laura Huffman at The Mitchell Foundation discusses four ways and solutions to the problems that Texas is facing with their water. 

• What are the drinking water infrastructure needs in your region? How can funders help to improve infrastructure at scale? 

• Here's an article on Texas' statewide flood mitigation plan. 

We framed up the water problem in part one of this two-part series. We established that water is the connective tissue that stitches together nearly every facet of modern life; and that being clear-eyed about the problem is an important first step. But the truth is, it touches down differently depending on where you live.

Solving big on water means finding solutions that scale across our communities and around the globe. And it’s time to get creative about how we solve each other’s problems.

We’re doing that work in Texas, with four scalable water solutions being implemented statewide:

  1. creating water funds,
  2. institutionalizing funding for water supply strategies,
  3. creating a statewide flood recovery fund, and
  4. exploring water markets as a path to reallocating water for changing needs.

Read the full article about Texas' water problem by Laura Huffman at The Mitchell Foundation.