This story has everything, a focus on desal that led to overlooking other water sources, a city manager making $400K/yr saying don’t panic, a former water system manager saying residents should absolutely panic, and magical thinking: “The last hope to avert disaster was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.”
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“City officials expect to reach a ‘water emergency’ within months and run out of water next year.“
“The region’s largest industrial users, which collectively consume the majority of the region’s water, remain exempt from emergency curtailment.”
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Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe
City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...
