Facts About Organ Donation
April 29, 2008
Organ and tissue transplants offer patients a new chance at healthy, productive, normal lives and return them to their families, friends, and communities. You have the power to change someone’s world by being a donor. It’s about living. It’s about life. Only about 35 percent of licensed drivers and ID card holders have committed themselves to donation by registering to be donors throught their state registry or motor vehicle department-leaving the donor shortage a leading public health crisis.
All patients waiting for a transplant in the United States have equal access to donated organs. Transplant waiting times can vary froma few months to years. While more than 93,000 Americans wait for transplant, only about 25,000 receive transplants each year. Seventeen people who are waiting die each day simply because there are not enough organs available. If you would like to share your life and find out more information about organ donation go to www.donatelife.net.
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Sabine River Basin Residents to be asked for Input to River Studies
April 22, 2008
Competition for river water is increasing as the state’s population and industries grow, putting greater pressure on the natural enviroment. On May 6 and 7 the Sabine River will kick off a series of public meetings across the state to invite local perspectives and knowledge for technical studies about how much water should flow in rivers for a healthy environment. Those studies will be conducted by the Texas Instream Flow Program, a tri-agency initiative to help determine how river water will be shared. “The public and stakeholders are encouraged to provide local expertise and knowledge to ensure these studies are as agood as they can be, ” said Barney Austin of the Texas Water Development Board, one of three state agencies jointly administering the Texas Instream Flow Program. The other two agencies are the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The Sabine River Authority will also assist the agencies with these public meetings.
Rivers, streams, and lakes belong to the state and can be used only with a permit. The Texas Istream Flow Program was created by state lawmakers ikn 2001 to determine how much water is needed to maintain a healtyh environment for rivers and streams. the program will provide river flow science for water planning, permitting and conservation. The program will also provide scientific data to the envirnomenatl flows process created by state lawmakers in 2007. Enviromental flows include flows required to maintain the health of both rivers and bays. Texas state agencies have been studying the freshwater inflow needs of bays and estuaries since 1975. The enviromental flows process will recommend how much water is needed by rivers and bays to support users human, wildlife, and plant life. State appointed stakeholders will help shape recommendations on flow conditions for seven river basin and bay systems identifies in the legislation. A river basin is the geographical area that drains water into the river.
The combined Sabine River, Neches River, and Sabine Lake system is the first basin and bay system to hold an “e-flows” stakeholder meeting. That meeting is expected to be held in May, although the location and time haven’t been set. As the second largest river in Texas, behind the Brazos River in average volume of water flowing to the coast each year, the Sabine is seeing growing demands for its water. Industry, cities, irrigators, recreationists, and the enviroment, are vying for the nearly 2 trillion gallons of water that flow to the mouth of the Sabine River in a typical year. Demand for water in the Texas portion of the Sabine Basin is expected to nearly double between 1990 and 2050, according to the Comprehensive Sabine Watershed Management Plan developed by the Sabine River Authority of Texas. Droughts, floods, and hurricanes also affect Sabine River flows.
The Texas Instream Flow Program will study the lower part of the Sabine River basing, where abour 415,000 people live on both sides of the Texas-Louisiana border. The area covers three counties (Newton, Orange, and part of Jasper) in Texas; and four parished in Louisiana (Vernon, Beauregard, Calcasieu, and Cameron). Meetings and workshops will be held to explain the technical studes and gather public knowledge and vision for the river. The Instream Flow Program will hold similiar public meetings in the Brazos and San Antonio river basins in coming months. For more information, visit www.twdb.state.tx.us/instreamflows
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