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Seems to me that the plastics plant shouldn't have been allowed to open. The city was already in crisis, and they allowed this plant to move forward. Did they have a review of how much water it would need?

Local neighborhood groups are going to have to start paying attention to industry water useage. Jobs will go away when the water is exhausted. Then families have to move away and start over wherever they can find an affordable place. We have the power to disrupt this if we work together.

"More than a decade of water planning missteps has led Corpus Christi to the precipice of an unprecedented economic disaster. The city and its port have tried and failed for years to build seawater desalination plants while drought deepened and reservoir levels fell.

“We’ve been in panic mode since the day we were sworn in,” Council Member Mark Scott, a title company owner who assumed his position in January 2025, told the meeting.

Most of the region’s water supply goes to industrial users, including chemical plants and refineries that produce jet fuel for Texas airports as well as gasoline for the state. The region’s largest water consumer is a plastics plant operated by ExxonMobil and the Saudi state oil company, which opened in 2022."