WATER DOCUMENTARY, 3: Connecting with the source ... 
we'll explain on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

We all need water to survive.

Water is something that's relevant to all Texans. :03

Texas Parks and Wildlife Executive Director Carter Smith 
reminds us that water is relevant to both human life and 
natural life. 

And, so the state and quality of our water life is essential to the 
wellbeing of our fish and wildlife in the state, and so obviously 
it's something that's near and dear to our hearts at Texas Parks 
and Wildlife. :09

This month, Texas Parks and Wildlife unveils another in 
its series of water documentaries. Texas: The State of 
Flowing Waters focuses on environmental flow, which is 
the water needed to maintain healthy ecosystems along a 
waterway.

And, as we think about water for fish and wildlife and people, 
we have to think about it from its source in the aquifers, to the 
springs that emanate from those aquifers, and then the water 
as it flows all the way down its course to eventually empty into 
our bays and estuaries. And healthy river systems need flowing 
water. :20 

The documentary will shed light on the work involved 
statewide to maintain these life-giving environmental 
flows.

Ensuring that we have water that is running through its course 
is critically important if we are going to sustain the biological 
diversity and the recreational values that we depend upon in 
these rivers and streams. :11

Texas: The State of Flowing Water airs on PBS stations 
Thursday February 12 at 8PM. And made possible by the 
Sport Fish Restoration program. That's our show ... For 
Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.


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