Introducing the Texas Property Water Profile: Groundwater Records for Texas Buyers and Sellers
Ask anyone who has bought or sold a piece of Texas land what they worried about, and water is almost always on the list. We know, because we've heard it in person - across hundreds of conversations with landowners, realtors, and buyers, and the more than 3,200 groundwater surveys those conversations grew out of. Nobody wants to be wrong about the water.
This summer, that worry landed on paper. As of July 1, 2026, a groundwater disclosure became part of many Texas property sales - so the water question isn't only on people's minds anymore. It's on a form they have to sign.
Well Water Finders is the groundwater intelligence company for Texas, and this is the kind of moment we're built for. Our newest product, the Texas Property Water Profile, gathers the groundwater records behind any Texas property into one download - so buyers and sellers can meet that form, and that decision, with the record already in hand.
A new question at the closing table
TREC Form 61-0 - the Seller's Disclosure About Groundwater and Surface Water Rights - asks sellers to share what they know about the water tied to a property: whether it sits inside a Groundwater Conservation District, whether it has water wells, and related groundwater details.
The form is built around the seller's own knowledge. A seller answers to the best of what they know, can answer "Unknown," and it's their signature that satisfies it. But "to the best of my knowledge" is a lot easier to sign when the record is in front of you.
What we keep hearing
The sellers we talk to don't want to guess on a legal form. The buyers want the water story before the offer goes in, not after the drill rig shows up. And the agents sit on both sides of that table.
The records that answer these questions already exist - the conservation district, the wells on file, the current property ownership. But they're scattered across county offices and public databases. For someone trying to fill out a disclosure or size up a property this week, no single place pulled them together.
So we gathered the record
Four ways to find a property - address, coordinates, Property ID or APN, or well number - and the Profile pulls the public records behind it into one download, ready in seconds and saved to your account, under My Property Water Profile Reports, to pull again anytime:
- The Groundwater Conservation District your property falls in, with its website and contact ready to enter.
- The water wells documented for the property in public records, so you answer from the record.
- The current property ownership on file, as background for the ownership questions.
Public records, stated plainly. The Profile helps you answer the disclosure's groundwater questions - it doesn't complete the form for you or stand in for what you know.
The part a buyer leans on
The disclosure only asks what the seller already knows. So we added what most people don't have on hand: our Area Groundwater Intelligence - the area's well-success rates and an area groundwater assessment, drawn from our own analysis of the surveys we've run and the historical record.
It reads the area's success-rate patterns, how deep wells there have tended to go, and where the area's record runs strong or dry - area-level intelligence a buyer weighs before making an offer. It's why one document serves both sides of the table: ready for TREC Form 61-0 if you're selling, ready for your due diligence if you're buying.
When the question turns to rights
Sometimes the ownership records raise a harder question - whether the groundwater or surface water rights have been severed, sold, or leased. That's a matter for an attorney or title professional, not a records report. If you need to go there, our Verify Water Rights page walks through how to confirm a property's water rights, with the option to connect with an attorney.
The groundwater intelligence company for Texas
We've spent years meeting landowners, realtors, buyers, and sellers where they stand - on the land, thinking about water. As an Associate Member of the Realtors Land Institute, we work alongside the people guiding these transactions every day.
The Texas Property Water Profile is the newest way we put that record in your hands: the water story behind any Texas property, ready the moment you need it.