SINTON, Texas — Corpus Christi city leaders have voted to purchase groundwater rights from the Evangeline Laguna Group, a group of landowners who own almost 23 million acres just north of Sinton for $169 million.
The move is part of a broader effort to expand the city’s water supply, but it’s drawing concern from nearby communities, including the city of Sinton itself, which relies on existing wells in the same area for its own water.
Local farmers who have depended on the aquifer for decades say they’re increasingly worried that Corpus Christi’s plan to draw water from that source could put their livelihoods at risk…