Climate Scientists Shake Their Heads as First US City Running Completely Out of Water
Posted by ccarriecc@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 207 comments
Corpus Christi, TX.
Sea-Trade8270@reddit
According to ai, these cities are starting to have a water crisis mainly due to aging infrastructure.
Mathis, Texas
Jackson, Mississippi
Richmond, Virginia
Houston, Texas
Atlanta, Georgia
MenosElLso@reddit
Bro are there no more editors, wtf is this article:
theStaircaseProject@reddit
My god, they’re even running out of words…
SurrrenderDorothy@reddit
be.
horseradishstalker@reddit
https://www.tpr.org/news/2026-04-23/corpus-christi-plans-to-declare-a-water-emergency-what-does-that-mean
LiveReplicant@reddit
Probably AI written
agent_mick@reddit
AI doesn't typically forget words
fragrant-final-973@reddit
You're absolutely right! Let me fix that for you immediately—good catch!!
agent_mick@reddit
Illogical responses? Sure.
But the sentences are complete.
Perfect_Caregiver_90@reddit
I'm in the region and it's all just so stupid that it almost causes me physical pain.
trainurdoggos@reddit
What the sentiment in the region about this from your perspective? Is anyone making plans around this?
I know it’s all here-say but I’m curious.
Diaza_Kinutz@reddit
I live at n Corpus. Everyone is just pretending nothing is happening. People saying it's just a normal drought cycle and we'll get a couple of tropical storms to refill all the reservoirs. Meanwhile the city and surrounding area population is exploding. Industry is using more water than ever with th Gulf Coast Ventures plant using as much as the next three refineries combined. It's pretty sad. Personally I'm not doing anything to prepare because I can barely afford to live one week to the next. I can't afford to move. Guess I'll die 🤷
cyanescens_burn@reddit
And you have a federal administration hell bent on removing environmental regulations. I’m curious to see if anyone there makes the connection.
Perfect_Caregiver_90@reddit
Federal activities have got nothing on the BS at the state level.
AimlessClimber@reddit
They know and don't care.
Hurricaneshand@reddit
Here's a good video about it
Link
SnooGoats6380@reddit
Hey this is nice to see, I was camera guy on part of this story and hadn't watched yet. Dan's a good dude!
HotPotParrot@reddit
Thanks.
City council dude clearly sold out.
so_metal292@reddit
"water is a commodity," he said, putting on his clown outfit
woollinthorpe@reddit
More Perfect Union make great videos. Thanks for the link.
EpsteinandTrump@reddit
Better than Corpus in Hearses!
Perfect_Caregiver_90@reddit
I'm hearing a lot of talk about moving out of South Texas as a whole that I haven't heard before. There is a low level grumble of concern about long term access to water.
I know Corpus Christi was in talks to purchase a desalinization plant from San Antonio's CPS Energy, but San Antonio residents are mixed on the offer.
Corpus Christi city council really screwed the pooch with this.
just_a_knowbody@reddit
If you’re gonna move better do it before the market starts crashing. If there’s a mass exodus the local market will crash pretty fast.
Lucky_Reporter256@reddit
This can’t be emphasized enough. Move now just move
redhandrail@reddit
*Hearsay. In case it’s helpful to know
trainurdoggos@reddit
Thanks
Basic_Assumption5311@reddit
From an outsider, how does Ted Cruz & Greg Abbot keep getting re-elected?
Perfect_Caregiver_90@reddit
Because business loves them and our districts are gerrymandered to dilute urban voters.
Salt-Operation@reddit
Because they cheat by disenfranchising voters.
ComingInSideways@reddit
I am sorry for your pain I feel your pain from stupidity in my region too.
LengthWise2298@reddit
Oh look it’s in Texas. Who’s surprised?
Shydale-for-House@reddit
Time to bring out the solar assisted desalination plants on a level that would make their bureaucrats head spin.
CityCareless@reddit
😂😂😂😂 solar assisted….man oh man. I’d love to see that. I’ll ask an EE how feasible that is.
3seconddelay@reddit
It’s not. We need nuclear fusion and fast.
rhysolandrium@reddit
The US is not historically good at nuclear. I trust it even less with the billion dollars of cuts to safety and redundancy.
There's a reason Canada never sold the US the CANDU technology. It's esseniall infallible and produces next to no refuelable waste.
CityCareless@reddit
That’s what I thought.
3seconddelay@reddit
Technically it’s feasible but it’s just not scalable. Modern reverse osmosis and electrodialysis desalination technology is efficient enough to run on photovoltaic power but it requires continuous dense power. You would need huge amounts of land for PV arrays and massive battery storage facilities to provide enough power for desalination plants to provide all the fresh water for a city like Corpus Christi. Not to mention the brine disposal infrastructure that would be required. A pipe dream, pun intended, at this point.
CityCareless@reddit
Right! The ocean desal plant I worked out was collocated next to a power plant and had its own substation. Stupid thing would have brownouts all the time too. They would take the warm water from the P-plant cooling water outfall, and use that same outfall to dilute the concentrate down stream of the Desal intake.
All of our brackish RO WTPs use injection wells to dispose of brine.
turtlepower22@reddit
Not this ad as I scroll comments on this post
JackBlackBowserSlaps@reddit
This article was either written by AI, or an idiot. Grammar is so bad.
Duc_de_Bourgogne@reddit
Wanna bet those industries will sue the city for failing to meet its obligation?
evmoiusLR@reddit
100%
Calamity-Bob@reddit
Trump math. 600%
ExoticBump@reddit
600% of 100%.
memecrusader_@reddit
“60% of the time, it works every time.”
ExoticBump@reddit
Sex panther baby..I'm gonna be honest that smells like pure gasoline
PTBAFC24601@reddit
But there’s only a 10% chance of that.
ExoticBump@reddit
Of course 10% of 1% so a very little of a percent. Many ppl told me...they said...Mr. President it's a small percentage....1% of 0.01%...very little
SurrrenderDorothy@reddit
6.
KGKSHRLR33@reddit
Is still a fair amount more than 100% and they didnt even meet that! So now they get to do 600% of that much. Which is like 700% of the others if you really think about it. Very large numbers.
TWB-MD@reddit
Nobody has ever seen numbers very larger than these. Even big, burly men, with tears in their eyes, said “Sir, these very large numbers are so beautiful.”
Calamity-Bob@reddit
I stand…”corrected”
The_chosen_turtle@reddit
What the actual fuck have we become as Americans. To think we allow private companies and industries sue us after allowing them to use OUR resources. We’re not angry enough and we’re to much of cowards to make a change
rerrerrocky@reddit
Sure, I'll just open a market on kalshi real quick /s
dawn_thesis@reddit
they have near-infinite sunlight and a coast. there's a reason we have governments.
pashalka31@reddit
Problem is when you shift to a physics based model.
Corruption is efficiency loss. In the military we always accounted for becoming combat ineffective at 30% loss/injury.
Its close to the same percentage in government. Texas has a long history of corruption so even without running the numbers its in trouble which means it gets shifted to a federal problem. And that's where the real losses start stacking up.
In 1994 Viktor Bout was dispatched by an ex KGB officer, St Petersburg politician, and current mobster named Vladimir Putin to trade soviet surplus arms to the Taliban for heroin that the Russian Mafia who took over the government could use to enslave/trade to the people of Russia for their paper shares of the former Soviet socialist state awarded to them by Yeltsin.
Behind Trump and Epstein, Viktor Bout was the most important piece on Putins Russian mafia chessboard.
The Soviet Union was the largest war machine in world history. The entire economy was based on destroying the west. When it collapsed it had more arms than any empire in human history.
And those weapons all made it to every genocide, war, conflict, or massacre in the world by way of one man-
Viktor Bout.
From Charles Taylor in Liberia to the ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia to the invasion of Ukraine, you can track it by its supply chain logistics.
Army runs on food, fuel, and ammunition. And they all get moved by way of the path of least resistance to their point of use.
For anyone whose army or gang ran ak-47's chambered in 7.62x39mm that means it came from Russia.
In 1994 Putin also engineered the Russian invasion of Chechnya then murdered Akhman Kadyrov to cover it up. Since Kazakstan declared its independence, Chechnya and Iran became the necessary gateway to Afghanistan where the worlds heroin was produced in the 1990's.
Weapons are heavy so they tend to travel by rail or truck. So they take the low road rather than the high mountain pass as much as possible.
That path led through Iran.
Drugs are much lighter and easier to carry so in the 1990's they are the preferred currency of organized crime next to cash or more recently, crypto.
As Putin and his Mafia of gangsters traded the worlds largest surplus of guns for heroin, then traded the heroin for all the critical industry, oil and gas, metals, fertilizer, uranium etc that made them billionaires in Russia, they had almost everything they needed to complete their conversion from psychopathic street thug to legitimate respectable oligarch. ( Putin now makes $750M a day off of this war. )
But they were still trapped in the hyper violent hell on earth they themselves created between St. Petersburg and Moscow and wanted out.
So they laundered that money into the UK and US using Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump's commercial real estate. They tried Trump's casinos first but collapsed them under the mass of $1.4 TRILLION. It's a lot to hide in a craps table. But they made an asset out of Trump by having Epstein set up and produce a VHS of Trump raping a 13 year old little girl. (This was the video that DEA/FBI agent Bob Levinson was shown just before Russian intelligence baited him to their proxy state: Kish island Iran)
So they collapsed the casinos into bankruptcy, murdered Mark Etess, Jonathan Benanav, and Stephen Hyde and started using commercial real estate instead. They would hyperinflate the valuation, then sell it back and forth to each other passing the bulk of the cash back under the table.
As you worked 40-60 hrs a week to save up for a down payment on a house down the street and run comparables, the cost of your place went up 4-12x by comparison, but your wages didn't. So you paid the corruption tax multiple times. (You are the victim in Leticia James lawsuit against Trump and this is why he claims Mar-a-Lago is worth $1B and refuses to share his tax records.)
But it all tracked back to Viktor Bout and a Egyptian man named Al Zawahiri whom Putin brought into Russia between 1996-97, managed by young patriotic FSB officer named Alexander Litvenenko and cashflowed to fund an organization the Saud ruling family started called Al Qaeda. Al Zawahiri was the key man in Iran that allowed the Russian jewish Mafia to move those same guns and heroin through a muslim country as long as Putin could hold Iran as it's proxy state perpetually. (Same basic play as Assad in Syria until it collapsed and assad ran to Moscow. His replacement was a Al Qaeda operative handpicked by Al Zawahiri) Hence why Putin and Trump rely on their co-conspirator Netanyahu to pound the drum of Iranian nuclear capacity for 30+ years.
In 1999 Putin then blamed a non-existent islamic entity called the "Liberation Army of Dagestan" from Chechnya for blowing up some Russian apartment buildings. Putin committed that terrorism, but that started the "War on Terror" that 2 years later took U.S. troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Putin created the demand for the weapons he had in abundance by dragging the US into a 20 year war at the same time he started an economic war against the U.S. by devaluing the dollar with rigged real estate while leasing U.S. and EU politicians and podcasters cheaply and secretly (FBI Arctic Frost investigation that Trump had Patel disappear then fire every FBI agent that investigated him)
It was all enabled by the greed of wall street bankers and hedge fund managers who would do business with anyone for money: (Jeffrey Epstein and Jes Staley at JP Morgan Chase, Leon Black at Bank of America etc)
But it left an evidence trail of deep trafficking ruts through Ukraine, Iran and Venezuela. Putin invaded Ukraine as the decorruption audits for NATO and EU membership exposed his corruption there (Kolomoiskiy). Putin instructed Trump to assassinate the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani as the General began realizing that the same drug gangs he fought earlier in his career were funded by the same people shooting at his men from Israel.
So when Viktor Bout was recorded by the DEA on the border of Colombia and Venezuela trading soviet rocket launchers for cocaine it stalled Putins operation.
Putin then used his asset Trump to clean up. Trumps son and security guard awarded a contract to Silvercorp (Jordan Goodreau) to send Luke Denman and Airan Berry into Venezuela where they were set up to be captured and traded back to the U.S. for Fat Leonard and Alex Saab. (Key men in Putins espionage and money laundering circuit)
Putin assassinated Litvenenko with polonium laced tea and kidnapped Britney Griner who was then traded for Putins most incriminating secret chess piece- Viktor Bout. Bandar Saud had ran interference in the UK demanding prime minister Tony Blair disband the special investigation unit researching Zawahiris Swiss accounts or he "would no longer be able to help the UK stop terrorism". The 7/7 bus and tube bombings in London sealed the deal and Blair disbanded the SIO. Tonys is now bolting out of retirement and on Trump's "board of peace" as his wife had been funded by both Prevezon (Russian real estate front) and the Saud ruling family via the Al Yamamah arms trafficking case she represented them in.
This is what "the Epstein files" is. During the Cold war there were only a few gateways across the iron curtain. Israel was the major one because it was formed in 1948 by 650,000 refugees. 70% were from the Soviet bloc. Robert Maxwell traded espionage stolen from the US to Moscow to build the IDF with arms smuggled through Ukraine. The Zionist Mafia created the Likud party/Netanyahu to control Israel at the same time they infiltrated the US Republican party via Ronald Reagan and Zionist operative Henry Kissinger managed all the U.S. presidents from inside the oval office. The Saud ruling family funded the Zionists for Iran Contra as Jeffrey epstein ran aviation logistics for les Wexner out of Rickenbacker AFB. Now they can't stop lying as their transnational corruption eats them alive.
Corruption is cancer. But it ALWAYS takes the path of least resistance-
Politicians and Billionaires.
angrytetchy@reddit
One point, minor semantics: You're calling this corruption, but it seems to be more the system(s) are working as intended and this was always an intended result. We're just seeing it for what it is with words to describe it.
No matter what, at this point all countries were "founded" by a wealthy elite that stay in place, the names and methods just change. The people that do break the ceiling are usually quickly brought into the fold of the system to keep it in place. It's impossible to have wealth and morals since wealth is accumulated via the exploitation of the people below. And once someone feels superior to others, they act accordingly.
pashalka31@reddit
Years ago we started modeling this in different ways to see which was most accurate.
The one that really stood out was an entropic model.
Everything in the universe demands balance as a matter of thermodynamics. Heat bleeds into cold to a neutral stable.
Corruption is just entropic loss from a closed loop system. Our planet is adiabatic so there are no external resupply shuttles coming. But we have increased the population 4x in the same window of time that we have been sold the belief that Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine was an accurate model
At scale this whole thing becomes a unified model of physics. Energy is neither created or destroyed, just rearranged. So anything but a conservation model is fundamentally unsustainable at scale. That destroys Keynesian economics and the disposable society of endless pop up advertising and endless plastic products we have allowed ourselves to consume. But when that breaks it also defunds the same predators that have placed themselves as funnels for that energy/money.
Consumption for the sake of consumption is the ideology of cancer.
With enough processing power (and self awareness) we can use this same algorithm to cure cancer. Fundamentally all cancer is is larger cancer leader cells convincing the healthy organic cells that living larger is better. Cancer corrupts the source code of the healthy cells DNA and grows it's network of inaccurate data (source code). It survives by feeding on everything around it and diverting the energy critical for the healthy tissue to survive.
As a banking model that is debt. As a war model it is scorched earth.
But as a political model it is traceable.
Corruption is just the word we put as the placeholder in that algorithm as it covers every loss of efficiency within the human species from telling a lie to bribing a DJ to owning a president.
angrytetchy@reddit
Who is "we" if I may ask? Some like-minded individuals? A scientific cohort? Just humans in general?
Also, please keep in mind that I have a history degree, so I tend to see things from that point of view and I also usually zoom out to long time scales. (This is just a personal preference.) I've recently been binging the LBA collapse, and the parallels between then and now are... interesting. But there's always the common thread - wealthy elites/governments overreaching. More more more - more territory, more wealth, more everything until it becomes unsustainable. And then we do it all again... because humans are insane. We keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
So I think we're agreeing on all points, just calling it different names and looking at it through slightly different lenses, yeah?
pashalka31@reddit
You are precisely correct.
It's recurring wavelength throughout human history.
We modeled it as an entropic energy model but its the same base algorithm.
It also means that because of the invention of the integrated circuit microprocessor in the 1950's, for the first time in known human history we can map it BEFORE it happens.
The longer the time scale the more accurate our data.
When this round of corruption really supercharged in the 1930s and 40s there really wasnt any way that organized crime could have envisioned a world as small (due to the IC microprocessor) as it is now.
So they have had to spend insane amounts of money building media networks, kompromat operations and data centers to try and gaslight the general population into believing lies that become increasingly expensive to maintain with each passing day.
And that all contributes to the noise we are all subjected to constantly.
But what we can measure, we can manage.
Run the analysis of the CAPEX into those data centers and LLM's in reverse and it's like painting the corrupt players white hot with a thermal scope.
Your historical data adds resolution.
Put it all together and it's a full scale solution for entropic breakdown.
Peace in the middle east through superior self awareness and processing power.
IGnuGnat@reddit
You consistently use the term "we" which gives the impression of some kind of group, but you don't answer the question.
pashalka31@reddit
Well that is largely a function of the fact that we are currently in a war.
We built it decentralized for that reason.
I'm going to have to stay a bit vague on it for now to keep everybody safe. But it will come together shortly.
angrytetchy@reddit
I don't suppose your models can predict where in the US will break first? Or where in the world? It's so frustrating to see this global speed run of Late Antiquity mixed with Late Bronze Age mixed with Holy Roman Empire. What exactly are the predictive models for a total entropic breakdown looking like?
I'm feeling a bit lost because I don't understand the hypothesis for all this data. Name and shame? Knowing who to toss upon a bonfire first? Collective agreements that cannot go anywhere until a quorum is reached? Autistic info dump? (All valid options, I'm just looking for a way out of the overwhelmed/overstimulated maze of theory into practicality.)
Cultural_Praline_508@reddit
Always?
pashalka31@reddit
It's so consistent you could hypothetically build an entire decentralized intelligence gathering and triage based corruption targeting system off of it.
No real point in building a life boat with leaks
rem_lap@reddit
That's a lot of mentions of Bout and surprisingly no mentions of Semion Mogilevich.
pashalka31@reddit
That's how our triage model works. We build organically. From the bottom to the top. Mogilevich is in there. Rothschilds too. Everyone in their order.
Careful-Lettuce9239@reddit
I love you. I wish I could replace the brain of a puppy with yours and just cuddle you forever. I'd put a little bow-tie on you...we could make this happen, look how smart you are! I'll settle for just a puppy onesie, I can make compromises!
pashalka31@reddit
True happiness is being a Labrador in a upper middle class family.
BusyBanana4205@reddit
So what you’re saying is, the Soviet Union itself lost, but the people that mattered the most within the Soviet Union won, and everything unnecessarily costly, unethical, and widely unpopular about this country is interwoven and orchestrated between Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, US banks, and Trump?
pashalka31@reddit
Or to simplify-
Corruption is ALWAYS the common denominator.
As the world shifted from steam to gas the world's richest people developed their own corruption superhighways that cross borders, religious boundaries and ideology.
At the same time they bought the media.
We have all been indoctrinated by that media to sort by nationality or religion, but when you change the search algorithm to sort by net worth, lack of empathy and those much faster movements through private airport FBO's, yacht clubs and world economic forums it becomes a physics experiment
Corruption, like electricity and hot oil, ALWAYS takes the path of least resistance.
Which makes it VERY traceable with the right algorithm and some processing power.
Pretend-Policy832@reddit
Source?
Careful-Lettuce9239@reddit
The epstein files.
Same-Traffic-285@reddit
Holy canoli. I read that whole thing on the edge of my seat
ProfDoomDoom@reddit
Thank you for such a clear narrative.
pashalka31@reddit
Of course neighbor.
It's how we all survive.
Bloody_Biscuit_Balls@reddit
That’s the thing about a lie, it takes energy to maintain. The truth is free. And the bigger a lie becomes, the more energy it takes to maintain. It’s only a matter of time before the energy it takes to maintain the lie is too great.
You write like a certain drifter from the back country I used to see around… it’s refreshing to see the truth being spread again.
Southern_Air3501@reddit
Damm. Thanks for taking the time
what_the_fuckin_fuck@reddit
A bit wordy, but spot on.
hot_space_pizza@reddit
Desalinisation? Sounds like a good place for it
RickMuffy@reddit
I watched a few videos on it, and the problem is the salt brine killing the bay and all the aquatic life. The solution would be charging the corporations using 75% of the available water and pushing the brine created even further out into the water to reduce the impact on the wildlife, but the politicians are bought.
alwaysleafyintoronto@reddit
The govt said they might have to start doing something in September. They're fine.
Puzzle-Necked@reddit
sixxtynoine@reddit
Thoughts and prayers. Posts and shares.
huskyghost@reddit
I live here. City leadership decided years ago they would sell off our water to industry. So In turn industry propped the city up gave alot of us high paying refinery jobs , the port of corpus christi gave us high paying jobs, and it brought in tourism to the surrounding areas. We'll refinerys , grew and now use more water per day that the city can naturally refill. So the solution was desalination plant on the city / tax payers dime because the city already sold the water rights to the industry for many years in the future. Industry also gets exceptions from water restrictions while citizens have to pay extra cut water usage and get massive fines if they dont cut by 25 % water usage. With no way to monitor your water usage. The problem with the desalination plant is it pumps the waste or salty condensed water back into the gulf of mexico which kills all the sea life and plants. Killing the fishing industry , tourism industry for corpus and all its surrounding cities. It displaced people living in a poor black neighborhood that will be required to leave there homes. So if a way to pump the waste from the de sal plant further away is not created the entire city will be sacrificed to keep the refinerys going.
Nonsense-forever@reddit
It’s the Lorax in real life. That books had such a huge impact on me as a kid and now I’m watching the warnings in it come to life, while everyone just pretends everything is fine. It boggles the mind.
SurrrenderDorothy@reddit
IS this a red or blue government?
SheerAwesomness@reddit
corpus is a red sea. our governor, who has a lot of power in this situation, is Republican Corporatist Bitchass, Greg Abbott.
here’s a good video on the topic https://youtu.be/2QAARB4bNTE?si=C3S6pcu3QicRMZbf
Ishidan01@reddit
It's Texass. Guess.
SheerAwesomness@reddit
https://youtu.be/2QAARB4bNTE?si=C3S6pcu3QicRMZbf
good video on this situation
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
There are several large cities not too far away from Corpus Christi. They must not be in real great condition water wise either.
MutedRage@reddit
Texas has a lot of aquifers.
Lower-Limit3695@reddit
There are limits to how long an aquifer can feasibly sustain an economy. Once it's tapped out there's no recharging it and right now Texas is nearing water bankruptcy.
MutedRage@reddit
Yes of course there are limits. Good water management and city planning are extremely important, especially in prolonged drought conditions. But being hyperbolic about it isn’t useful either. Texas has 31 aquifers at varying depths and in varying geographies. One of the reasons the Texas population is growing so fast and so many data centers are flocking here is because it has water. Corpus Christi has grossly mismanaged their water resources for decades. Not all cities in Texas have made those same choices.
For example near by in San Antonio, the aquifer water management is one of the best in the world. They get city officials from all over the world coming to study their stewardship practices and how to implement them. So two hours north of an example of the worst water management in the country there is an example of the best.
The failure of one city does not mean water bankruptcy for the Texas. But it is a wake up call to governments that water management needs to be taken seriously.
Lower-Limit3695@reddit
Overdraw in one area can effect adjacent areas. Northern Travis county for example haven't been implementing stringer water conservation rules to alleviate water scarcity issues in the Edwards Aquifer. Instead relying on voluntary water conservation or moderate restrictions.
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
Not long ago most people didn’t even know what an aquifer was much less the name of specific ones. Maybe Texas could build a desalination facility to help the water situation.
Lower-Limit3695@reddit
Desalination is a good solution for urban water use. However industrial and agricultural users typically need water prices lower than what desalination can offer. Farmers in texas typically pay $15-$45 per acre-foot of water whereas desalinated water has a price of $2,000 and $3,000 per acre foot (you can get it lower with lower salinity brakish water at $357 to $782 acre-foot).
Paying desalinated prices would crush Texan industrial and agricultural users. There isn't really an easy solution to the water crisis in Texas other than ramping up water conservation efforts and making hard decisions on what water consumers they want to prioritize over others.
Southern_Air3501@reddit
We just went into Stage 3 water restrictions, and I'm nowhere near San Antonio or Corpus.
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
What are stage 3 water restriction rules?
Southern_Air3501@reddit
For us, it's handheld hose watering only and only during early morning or late evening; absolutely no sprinklers; no car washing; no pool filling, no driveway washing.
They're trying to cut the city water use by 20%.
SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit
And just the cherry on top of the shit sundae...when an aquifer gets overdrawn, it will never hold the same amount of water again. That's because the overburden (other rock formations, soil, infrastructure, etc) pushing down on the aquifer materials, compacts the pore spaces that previously held water. That, in turn, limits how much water that aquifer can hold in the future plus the speed with which water can be removed from it (reduced permeability).
Basically, an aquifer should never be drained faster than its recharge rate if you want that aquifer to exist in the future.
VermicelliFirm3042@reddit
Fitting?
CraftsyDad@reddit
Very
Southern_Air3501@reddit
They're going down. Texas has been in drought for years, plus growth.
ThatBadFeel@reddit
For how long?
hotdamnhotwater@reddit
Look up Leander. It’s growing like crazy and they are having a massive water issue there while still building more houses.
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
Looks like Leander is in a severe flood zone. They get all their water at once. Fast growing city. Yes they are going to need water for all these homes.
huskyghost@reddit
They are not. City of corpus christi is attempting to take there water too to satisfy industry untill something else is fone.
cperzam@reddit
Money money money, it's all for fucking money
Panda_tears@reddit
Without looking I assume phoenix
V1ld0r_@reddit
Corpus Christi, Texes.
9966seg9966@reddit
I don't live in corpus, but I do wonder what kind of impact this will have on the rest of the state and what kind of timeline we're looking at for that shoe to drop fully.
wanderingpeddlar@reddit
You know I am not a engineer or a climatologist but why would they simply not take water from the Mississippi and purify it? I mean it is right there. I know its polluted down there but you can reclame it and pollution is easier to deal with then salt.
GregWilson23@reddit
The Mississippi River goes through the state east of Texas.
lunchboxguyisok@reddit
Bidens fault.
grummanae@reddit
How ?
lunchboxguyisok@reddit
My point
fragrant-final-973@reddit
You're in a cult.
TraditionalLaw7763@reddit
Remindme! 8 months.
TraditionalLaw7763@reddit
And with the district lines re-drawn and they get five more Republican seats, good luck getting anything done and you better start hoarding your water now.
spacesaucesloth@reddit
its a shame with all that coastline, the state wont invest in desalination facilities.
TraditionalLaw7763@reddit
That’s woke tawk, thar’ buddy! Shat yer mowth!
(Side note: that took forever to type. Autocorrect does not give in easily)
bluelily216@reddit
Biden set aside money for Corpus Christie:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-10127-buscon1
Yet it is one of the most solidly red districts in an incredibly red state.
TraditionalLaw7763@reddit
And I don’t even have to click the link to know they didn’t do right with it.
3seconddelay@reddit
We’d better figure out nuclear fusion fast before the water wars start.
charly420-@reddit
Texans get what they deserve.
itec745@reddit
Electricity is limited soon too. Maybe the power grid should connect with the rest of the country?
huskyghost@reddit
This is not true we have no power problems here..we have alot of farms so we have millions of wind turbines everywhere. We do have power problems when it freezes tho. Ercot isn't doing a good job of weatherizing the grid.
uselessandexpensive@reddit
Unfortunately, the saving grace technology you're citing has been derided as ugly and terrible by the administration, and funds for projects have been cut off (in many if not all places) with intent to kill development and keep the country reliant on fossil fuels that will make Texas' electricity demands go up with the heat, while literally producing massive amounts of heat directly in order to generate electricity.
That weather is only gonna get worse.
huskyghost@reddit
Oh well just go look outside at them and drive miles out of the city you will still see them. All I can say is my daily experience.
uselessandexpensive@reddit
You have what you have. Power demands will keep going up, particularly with the Texas GOP going hard on courting tech bros and their projects (data centers) with tax breaks and poor regulation, but the renewable supply won't unless Republicans get ousted in 2028.
It's possible they could turn to greater solar infrastructure. We'll see.
fragrant-final-973@reddit
Reality says otherwise.
So you do have power problems.
huskyghost@reddit
Like when it freezes once every 5 or 10 years. Ok you got me. Maybe in the next 5 years or so it will happen again. Its almost like Im imagining my electricity everyday....
itec745@reddit
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/ercot-forecasts-energy-demand-to-quadruple-by-2032/4012606/?amp=1
Due_Satisfaction2167@reddit
Texas is also building a fuck ton of new capacity every year. Absolutely mind-boggling renewable deployments compared with the rest of the US.
Texas deploys around 40% of the entire solar capacity installation for the whole US. >50% of all new battery capacity—also for the entire US.
horseradishstalker@reddit
Maybe now is the time to let Texas succeed from the union and take them off the federal dime. /s
huskyghost@reddit
Im not going to read the whole article but from your cut out. It reads that demand is higher but says nothing about not being able to meet demand.
North_Complaint_2135@reddit
Texas is WINNING...the drought 😂
ragdollxkitn@reddit
I love this for them. I can’t think of another state more worthy of this besides maybe Louisiana
Logical___Conclusion@reddit
It's hard to have to wait 3 years to get an American president that cares about the American people again. Instead of Traitor Trump and his Treason Bunch only caring about their blood soaked corruption money
The people are going to have to stand up for themselves if we want to survive. Tax the heavy water usage big businesses to build desalinization plants.
MrCockingFinally@reddit
There is a manual though? This shit has almost happened in Cape Town. Would have happened if action was not taken,
Independent-Bug-9352@reddit
is this fafo?
huskyghost@reddit
I live here. City leadership decided years ago they would sell off our water to industry. So In turn industry propped the city up gave alot of us high paying refinery jobs , the port of corpus christi gave us high paying jobs, and it brought in tourism to the surrounding areas. We'll refinerys , Ellon musks lithium refinery grew and now use more water per day that the city can naturally refill. So the solution was desalination plant on the city / tax payers dime because the city already sold the water rights to the industry for many years in the future. Industry also gets exceptions from water restrictions while citizens have to pay extra cut water usage and get massive fines if they dont cut by 25 % water usage. With no way to monitor your water usage. The problem with the desalination plant is it pumps the waste or salty condensed water back into the gulf of mexico which kills all the sea life and plants. Killing the fishing industry , tourism industry for corpus and all its surrounding cities. It displaced people living in a poor black neighborhood that will be required to leave there homes. So if a way to pump the waste from the de sal plant further away is not created the entire city will be sacrificed to keep the refinerys going.
Independent-Bug-9352@reddit
That is genuinely awful and I am sorry for those caught in the middle. I see this county voted for Trump and that is what I am referring to when I mention that. We on the left have warned of this -- the climate change, the ecological damage, the negative market externalities; the deregulation of industry and inequitable power dynamics of big corp'prit over municipal, state, and federal government for literally decades.
Will this be a wake-up call that maybe -- just maybe -- this small guv'mint guiding hand deregulation highest-bidder thinking doesn't work.
huskyghost@reddit
Im not a big fan of trump but this has been happening way before he was in office. It was funny tho he came recently to talk to the port. Everyone was like dont bring that guy here. Some people were like "no matter what you think we still have the honor of having a president in our city. When he stood up on stage imagine In his Trump voice " yea you see that big beautiful bridge back here. Yea I did that "no he didnt" its beautiful isn't. The colors I love the colors its a beautiful bridge. Oh you see the oil tanker back there. Its from Venezuela I did that. That big beautiful tanker full of oil. Lol was a joke.
fragrant-final-973@reddit
You're in a cult.
Independent-Bug-9352@reddit
Oh yeah I'm sure it has and mind you I come from a rural Republican family from decades ago, somewhat regretfully but alas live and learn I guess right? The broader GOP made Trump possible -- less so the other way around. There were scientists taking out newspaper ads warning of the perils to come more than a century ago. We had internal ExxonMobil reports in the 80s that were buried. Many experts warned and warned that deregulation and letting corporations rape our lands would come to this but people continued to vote against their own interest. Which you know, I am sympathetic to those blue collar voters for him because the megaphones of billionaire propaganda are hard to overcome for even someone with a top notch education and time to parse all the information.
So weird, his antics and that it connects with certain people you know? Like his character is so far removed from anything I aspire to be. Like, do people really see Jesus in him or something...? I sure don't.
Southern_Air3501@reddit
That's too bad. Corpus is my favorite coastal towns in Texas. So sad.
bubblepop1018@reddit
Have they checked the data centers?
patchesgarcia@reddit
They don’t have data centers down there. It’s all the refineries which is another beast they’ve been fighting for years.
Citizen85@reddit
And refineries and many other industries use way more water. But they aren't the current Internet boogeyman.
Northwindlowlander@reddit
It's not really an internet boogeyman thing, in many places datacentres are a rapid pressure point that will push barely-functioning systems over the edge quickly, that's a very particular and very real problem.
It's not the case here, because we have a long-term totally predictable failure of the sort that should never happen, and of course that's the sort of thing that causes confusion in rational people who assume that this problem must have emerged as some unexpected change rather than being baked in.
fragrant-final-973@reddit
Can confirm. Our town's water pressure went to shit when Meta came to town.
Comfortable_Ebb1634@reddit
I mean they are. Democrats want reform with most refineries and energy sources. They can be mad about lots of things at the same time. Republicans on the other hand need everything to be simplified down to a catchy slogan. Always something like “make America great again” or “the big beautiful bill” or “art of the deal”. As long as they can say some stupid catchphrase back at criticism they don’t even need to learn anything! Pretty cool, huh?
ellathefairy@reddit
Thought stopping cliches are a beautiful thing to a cynical politician.
fragrant-final-973@reddit
https://www.datacenters.com/lumen-corpus-christi-1
Sunnyjim333@reddit
They only use 1 - 5 million gallons of water a day, think of the shareholders.
On the plus side, houses should be cheap next year.
huskyghost@reddit
I hope so I want to get a house soon lol
EverbodyHatesHugo@reddit
Fire sale on houses
punktualPorcupine@reddit
Fracking and data centers before farming and people.
Beautiful_Cost_5430@reddit
Isn’t this where Elon lives?
Hutchicles@reddit
No, that's South Padre Island/Brownsville area
Beautiful_Cost_5430@reddit
Oh right sorry I was confusing that with the fact that Elon just opened a massive lithium refinery in Corpus Christi that is taking all of the clean water from the citizens.
Southern_Air3501@reddit
Damn i didn't even know about this. Holy crap. And lookie this:
Environmental Concerns: In April 2026, reports indicated independent tests found elevated lithium, arsenic, and hexavalent chromium in the facility's wastewater discharge.
https://electrek.co/2026/04/21/tesla-lithium-refinery-toxic-metals-wastewater-texas/#:~:text=Independent%20testing%20found%20hexavalent%20chromium%2C%20arsenic%2C%20and%20elevated%20lithium%20in%20Tesla's%20Robstown%20refinery%20wastewater.
followupquestion@reddit
Hexavalent chromium is the chemical that caused cancer rates to spike in Hinckley, California. You might recognize it as the catalyst for the movie Erin Brockovich which is based on the real life person by the same name.
Southern_Air3501@reddit
Yes, I do. That movie made that chemical famous. Scary and maddening! I do not understand how people dont care about these things, i.e. the owner, the builders, the people who approve this shit.
Hutchicles@reddit
Well, the Corpus Christi City Manager gets over $400k a year to approve these things.
Southern_Air3501@reddit
Lame. Do they live downstream? Probably not. Lame.
Hutchicles@reddit
Nah, they stuck that plant out in Robstown so you can't even see it in the city.
Low-Carob9772@reddit
Cape coral fl is next
hot_space_pizza@reddit
They can build a few more datacenters I guess. People don't matter only profits for the people who don't live there
Kooky-Struggle4367@reddit
Except it's industries taking all the water. Yes there is a drought but if there was not this concentration of these specific industries this wouldn't not even be happening
Complete_Try_3849@reddit
So i understand that this is a little crazy but just hear me out - Stop bottling your drinking water and selling it to uninhabitable places.
The_Vee_@reddit
Quick! Build another AI data center and grow another corn field (very water intensive crop) for ethanol!
Chemical_Mark4861@reddit
There are not conversations being had at the govt level on human rights migration due to climate change.
We are in big trouble.
snarmchiuni@reddit
water you doing corpus christi get a grip
rivasgabe@reddit
Corpus Christi isn’t running out of water — it’s running out of freshwater. Being next to the ocean doesn’t help unless you can afford to turn saltwater into something usable.
wales-bloke@reddit
What the world needs is more AI data centres, because AI driven corporate profit is more important than survival 😂
Mechbear2000@reddit
They gott what they voted for! Such much happiness there
MrsMiterSaw@reddit
Republicans in the central valley of California, as they continue to discharge 12% of our state's available water to produce the 0.09% of our GDP derived from almonds (roughly 3 gallons per almond):
Standby_fire@reddit
Maybe they can redistrict some.
Impossible_Range6953@reddit
😂😂
SCOTUS sided with them...they must be on the right path.
Alecto7374@reddit
The water wars are coming.
Impossible_Range6953@reddit
Sadly. Israel Palestine is a water war. Iran vs Gulf countries almost went there.
DeadlyYellow@reddit
There are times I wish I had the money to buy and hold land around here. Ten, twenty years property value around here is liable to be insane simply do to fresh water access.
Assuming the economy doesn't completely collapse, of course.
comfortablewig@reddit
Around where?
FelineOphelia@reddit
Shush shush SHUSH
BKMagicWut@reddit
LAMF
dingalinglans@reddit
At this point the Leopard needs indigestion aids for all the good eating.
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fragrant-final-973@reddit
Is that my face? Is that MY face?!
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shawner136@reddit
Then theres the industrial leniencies while the citizens of Corpus Cristi actually get punished for using too much water. As if their drops compare to the industry’s billions of gallons
autisticshitshow@reddit
Why am I not surprised it's Texas I swear I think their constitution was written by Ayn Rand. If there was ever an example of how libertarian policies fail it's Texas. I can not feel bad for people who keep hanging around dipshit decision after dipshit decision.
Due_Satisfaction2167@reddit
To be fair, this particular bit of stupidity is purely down to the city’s mismanagement and disgusting elevation of corporate interests over citizen interests.
JSizz20@reddit
Hey, let’s build another data center there!
crazinessyo@reddit
The texan rednecks can drink the sand!
rojira1@reddit
Damn immigrints drinking all our cold water!!
Onlyroad4adrifter@reddit
Call the governor hot wheels he will solve it.
SimicTears@reddit
For those not following the story:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CorpusChristi/s/6L59sGXOL5
Basset_found@reddit
Have they tried drinking oil?
BorgsCube@reddit
nothing we could have done about this, democrats fault or something or other
Clean_Progress_9001@reddit
It's already hard living out there.
Tsakax@reddit
Start drinking that ocean water problem solved