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Lake Houston is a reservoir on the San Jacinto River, 15 miles (24 km) northeast of downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The reservoir is the primary municipal water supply for the city of Houston.
A true-color image of Greater Houston. Astronaut photograph of Houston at night. Map of the Houston city limits. Houston, the most populous city in the Southern United States, is located along the upper Texas Gulf Coast, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston.
The Houston Water Works Company was established by a group of New York investors and entered a franchise agreement with the city of Houston in 1878. The company constructed a dam just upstream from Capitol Avenue, a processing plant on Artesian Street, and connected pipes to the city system. [2]
Heavy storms slammed the Houston area again Friday, widening already dangerous flooding in Texas and putting stranded drivers and a school bus of children in need of high-water rescues. There had ...
The city of Houston has ordered more than 2 million residents to boil water after a power outage affecting a purification plant. Houston officials issued the advisory Monday morning after the ...
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Coordinates: 29°44′9″N 95°27′40″W. The Waterfall. The Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park, [1] formerly the Williams Waterwall and the Transco Waterwall, is a multi-story sculptural fountain that sits opposite the south face of Williams Tower in the Uptown District of Houston. The fountain and its surrounding park were built as an ...
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ; HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the ...