Sharyland's 2025 report shows PFOS at 6.83 ppt and PFOA at 4.26 ppt, both above the new EPA limits. Plus a July treatment violation and lead at 22.9 ppb.

The 2027 State Water Plan reveals a troubling reality—Nueces County’s water foundation is under growing strain. Beneath the surface, declining supply, rising demand, and long-term drought pressures are converging, raising urgent questions about how sustainable the region’s water future really is.

And how your council can do the same thing From Joshua Moroles, South Texas Council September 21, 2026 WHY I AM DOING THIS At the retreat we said the same things three times: families do not know the signs, the care is not there, research has not included us, and we have data sitting unused. I am collecting 25 recorded interviews with caregivers of people with dementia or Alzheimer's in the Rio Grande Valley to put numbers and voices behind that. If the Arab Council and the A

Key Findings From Our Dementia Research Retreat AI-assisted synthesis from the retreat audioSouth Texas Council • Arab Council • African American Council | September 2026 I want to be careful about how I present this because this was a group effort. These are not my recommendations or conclusions, nor am I speaking for any of the councils. This is simply an attempt to organize what we collectively said so we can look at it together and ask: Did we hear ourselves correctly? Na

On Friday, September 18, representatives from the South Texas, Arab and African American dementia research councils gathered in San Antonio for a retreat focused on a question that could fundamentally change how we approach dementia research: What happens when communities stop being the subjects of research and become part of the research team? One of the major methodologies we explored was Critical Participatory Action Research, or CPAR. It sounds academic. But the idea behi

Gilberto Salinas told educators the Brownsville region has $50 billion in projects, 40,000 direct jobs, and a desalination plant on the way. A line-by-line look at his numbers, the incentives he skipped, and the water questions nobody asked.

For more than ten years, Nancy Chavez was a patient of Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada. Today she is being evaluated for a liver transplant, and her daughter is telling their family's story in her own words.

The City of Mercedes met every enforceable federal drinking water limit in 2025. Its own report also shows total dissolved solids at two and a half times the federal secondary standard, sodium at fourteen times EPA guidance for restricted diets, and lithium at more than five times the federal health screening level.

I took my first home sleep test expecting a simple apnea yes-or-no. Instead I learned about UARS — a mild airway condition where your oxygen stays perfect but your sleep gets quietly shredded. Here's what AHI vs. RDI actually mean, what my results showed, and the plan my doctor laid out.

San Benito's 2025 Consumer Confidence Report states no violations occurred. TCEQ's own database documents a lead-notification violation spanning four and a half months of that year, one of 18 errors and anomalies in the report. Under the RGV Water Health Score, the system grades an F at 50 out of 100, tied with Edinburg for fifth of seven RGV systems tested.

Edinburg's own 2025 Consumer Confidence Report confirms a federal Total Trihalomethanes violation in the city's north distribution zone. Under the RGV Water Health Score, the system grades an F at 50 out of 100 and ranks fifth of six RGV systems tested.

Silvia Carrillo was treated for years with chemotherapy shots for lupus, arthritis, and fibromyalgia — diseases independent lab work says she never had. In her own words, she describes the records her doctor's office refused to hand over, the confrontation that ended it, and the liver cirrhosis she still lives with.

Brownsville's water is legally compliant. Graded against the EPA's health goals instead of its legal limits, the picture is a C. Here is what BPUB's own 2026 report shows, led by a PFOS result above the federal limit.

She was a teenager when Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada told her she had a lifelong disease. Twenty years later, no other doctor has ever confirmed it — and, anonymously, she's sharing what those years cost her.

Harlingen Waterworks meets every legal limit in the federal drinking water code. Graded against EPA's own health goals, the same numbers tell a different story.

Gina Escobar was told she had rheumatoid arthritis she never had, then treated for years with chemotherapy-type drugs. Now permanently disfigured, she's sharing her story because the survivors of Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada were never given their own day in court.

The day-to-day swing from flood to furnace is normal for the Rio Grande Valley, but the baseline has shifted: 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded here, and the nights have stopped cooling. Here's an honest, source-by-source way to make sense of the week you just lived through.

Cameron County approved two major tax deals to land Saronic's $3.2 billion autonomous-warship shipyard at the Port of Brownsville. Here's what the company would build, what it's required to do, how similar Texas megadeals have actually performed, and what taxpayers still deserve to see.

The Valley spent the week bracing for water. Now the National Weather Service is forecasting a heat index up to 122 degrees. The danger didn't leave -- it changed shape.