We are pleased to announce that the Living With Water^® Houston report is now public! 

Download it here, and read Mayor Sylvester Turner’s statement here.

This report serves as a guide and a call to action, not only to City departments but to all Houstonians, to make sure that our city is ready for a future where we live with water and will thrive as a place of opportunity, equity, and resilience. I encourage everyone with a stake in our city to use it as a guide.

– Mayor Sylvester Turner 

Houston is a vast, diverse, energetic, innovative, and productive city. Although Houston will never be flood-free, its flood risks can be reduced, and through these efforts, its communities can become more livable, equitable, and resilient. Houston has the problem-solving and investment capacity missing in many flood-prone coastal cities. Thus, the question is not if Houston will address its flood challenges, but how.

Living With Water^® Houston builds on the many local efforts underway to reduce flood risk and provides a framework and illustrative vision for aligning future actions. The strategies presented in this document should be embraced, localized, developed, and deployed to address the increasing riverine/bayou, urban drainage, and storm surge flooding that threatens Houston.

Waggonner & Ball led two Living with Water^® workshops in November 2018 and May 2019 as part of Houston’s resilience program. Living with Water^® Houston brought together local, national, and Dutch experts representing multiple disciplines to solve site-specific water and resilience challenges alongside local governments, state and federal agencies, and community stakeholders.