(The Center Square) – City of Corpus Christi officials say the city won’t run out of water next year in the midst of ongoing concerns raised about a regional water crisis and the governor threatening to take over city operations.
The issue has been coming to a head due to several factors. Over the past decade, the region has brought in more than $57 billion in investments, including corporations like Tesla building new facilities with major tax incentives.
As part of an incentive, county government and school district officials have granted multibillion dollar corporations hundreds of millions of dollars in property tax breaks, arguing the economic contributions outweigh the property tax losses. The city of Corpus Christi, with approvals from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), has also approved hundreds of millions of gallons of water a month to be used by several major corporations…