In Texas, the legal age of consent for sexual activity is 17, but under the law, teacher-student relationships in which the students were 17 and 18 years old have been criminalized.
In 1944, the US and Mexico signed a treaty regarding the river, and in 1997, the US designated the Rio Grande as one of the American Heritage Rivers. Two portions of the Rio Grande are designated National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, one in northern New Mexico and the other in Texas, at Big Bend National Park.
Texas is in the Gulf of Mexico Drainage Basin with highest elevations in the northern and western panhandles. The drainage flows mainly towards the southwest. Most water leaves the state through the Rio Grande, Sabine, Neches, Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, Guadelupe, San Antonio, and Nueces Rivers.