Texas needs at least $174 billion to avoid water crisis, state says. Growing communities across Texas are scrambling to secure water, keep up with construction costs and cope with a yearslong drought.
Texas needs at least $174 billion to avoid water crisis, state says
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Texas communities will need to spend $174 billion in the next 50 years to avert a severe water crisis, a new state analysis revealed Thursday. That’s more than double the $80 billion projected four years ago, when the Texas Water Development Board last passed a state water plan.
The three-member board presiding over the agency authorized the highly anticipated draft blueprint Thursday, the first administrative step toward adopting the water development board’s plans for the next 50 years. The plan, released every five years, encompasses the projects that 16 regional water planning groups in Texas said are the most urgent, water development board officials said.
So Texas must spend $174 billion to address a water crisis caused by burning oil and gas? Consider it a down payment, idiots. There’s much, much more to pay.
Best we can do is subsidize more oil and gas instead.
So they won’t do anything about it except ask for money from the federal government and blame them during democratic administrations and how democrats have failed them.
Best they’ll do is build AI data centers to use even more water.
Shhhhhhh, listen… Can you hear that? In the distance? Quiet now… That the sound of chickens coming home to roost.
Signed: progressive Europeans.
Texans paid 1.4 billion in federal taxes for military aid to Israel.