About

The Mission

We keep a close eye on local Texas matters…

Texas Water Intelligence aims to build water domain awareness, with the hope of enhancing our ability to more sustainably and effectively manage Texas’s most precious natural resource. We present data in a clear and creative manner to bring perspective and challenge readers, in the hope of catalyzing productive discussions and advancing the debate about how to best manage Texas water resources.

…But we’re globally minded too

We’ll also occasionally pull in examples and analysis of water issues in other states (and countries like China, India, and multiple parts of Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa), since water resource management challenges frequently create global impacts and require a broad mindset to develop solutions.

The Founder

Gabe Collins is a Permian Basin native who instinctively appreciates the importance of water and is also a licensed Texas attorney with a strong commodity market analysis background.

He is the Baker Botts Fellow in Energy and Environmental Regulatory Affairs at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy’s Center for Energy Studies and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. At Baker, he co-heads the Program on Energy & Geopolitics in Eurasia. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. He was a member of the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute team and is still teased by his family for by joining a commodity hedge fund right before the 2008 market crash. Gabe worked two summers as a roustabout before and during college, reads Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish well enough to use them in his research, speaks each just well enough to get himself in trouble, and is licensed to practice law in Texas.

I’d love to hear from you! If you have a question, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me at gabe@texaswaterintelligence.com.