This year, I’m predicting, Corpus Christi will be inundated with journalists from national outlets wanting their own story about the city’s imploding water supply failures. As the city lurches toward the ignoble status as potentially the first modern U.S. city to run out of water, we are witnessing an echo of shocks felt in much larger cities, like Johannesburg, South Africa, where much of the population suffers under ‘Day Zero’ conditions due to “infrastructure failure, poor planning and weak accountability,” as The Citizen writes.
— Gaige Davila
Months Away from Running Out of Water, Corpus Christi’s Officialdom Still Holds Industry More Dear Than its Own Residents
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