Water Woes: Severity of Corpus Christi's shrinking water supply

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  • Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
  • 3NEWS' Bill Churchwell takes an detailed look into Corpus Christi's dwindling water supply.

Комментарии • 186

  • @humanlifeforce
    @humanlifeforce 23 дня назад +42

    I moved out of Corpus end of 2017. I could not leave fast enough! One of the most dysfunctional municipalities EVER!
    Thier mushandling of the e tire water situation was abisimial. The water quality was horrible! Constant water boils, contaminated tap water, flesh eating bacteria in the tap water, etc.

  • @user-qr7ee2cp4y
    @user-qr7ee2cp4y 22 дня назад +29

    Same amount of water... too many people and too much consumption....

    • @bhambhole
      @bhambhole 20 дней назад

      Word.

    • @jacobcarpenter4155
      @jacobcarpenter4155 15 дней назад

      Yea I’m sure having a warming climate has nothing to do with it…I forget Texans don’t believe in that stupid lib stuff…

    • @ReeferMadman
      @ReeferMadman 6 дней назад

      All the new refineries are consuming it. Research it, you'd be shocked to learn how much the new refineries are using up the water. Because of greed.

  • @harold5560
    @harold5560 20 дней назад +31

    It’s so amazing to live in a “low tax, few regulations and everything cheap” state like Texas, until things like this start to happen. The whole state of Texas is in a nonstop building frenzy despite the fact that it is one of the states most vulnerable to droughts, extreme heat , and climate change (which it’s leaders deny is even happening). Good luck Texans!

    • @magesalmanac6424
      @magesalmanac6424 20 дней назад +5

      Gotta make a quick buck, but they’re not planning for the long term.

    • @andyoli75
      @andyoli75 20 дней назад

      And Texas is just green enough for politicians to gaslight their followers that there isn't a problem.

    • @user-jk3ht5hn3m
      @user-jk3ht5hn3m 20 дней назад +5

      Stupid is as stupid does
      Forest Gump

    • @mathgasm8484
      @mathgasm8484 20 дней назад +3

      my county has regulations like 1 well and a septic tank for 5 acres but developments got around it by building sewer systems and set up a water company.

    • @stevechance150
      @stevechance150 19 дней назад +2

      And don't forget about the Texas power grid. People were burning their furniture to stay warm during that huge power outage.

  • @rodnroll3096
    @rodnroll3096 22 дня назад +20

    Corpus city opens it arms for more residential houses and commercial building to get there taxes but not enough water to go around the bucket is only so big

  • @noplandan4422
    @noplandan4422 23 дня назад +23

    It's hard to take these restrictions seriously when there is still so much construction going on.

    • @humanlifeforce
      @humanlifeforce 22 дня назад +3

      That is because the city panders to construction and any other revenue that will line their greedy pockets, while the tax paying citizens foot the bill.

    • @tvviewer4500
      @tvviewer4500 21 день назад

      Nuclear powered desalination is on its way for the rich people moving in dweeb

    • @wmpx34
      @wmpx34 20 дней назад +5

      Don’t worry, they applied for exemptions

    • @randallalan4221
      @randallalan4221 20 дней назад +4

      That's more than likely the problem...urban growth!

  • @alejandrohernandez7340
    @alejandrohernandez7340 23 дня назад +23

    Didn’t Elon open a lithium plant outside of corpus that plans on using more water in a month than what the entire city of Corpus needs in a year??

    • @user-qr7ee2cp4y
      @user-qr7ee2cp4y 22 дня назад +2

      It's always someone else's fault....

    • @michaeljohnson1805
      @michaeljohnson1805 22 дня назад +2

      No it has not opened….

    • @alejandrohernandez7340
      @alejandrohernandez7340 21 день назад +6

      @@michaeljohnson1805 That’s even worse 💀

    • @alejandrohernandez7340
      @alejandrohernandez7340 21 день назад +6

      @@user-qr7ee2cp4y Did Elon saw my comment and got butt hurt so he sent his garbage disposal intern to reply?

    • @michaeljohnson1805
      @michaeljohnson1805 21 день назад +3

      @@alejandrohernandez7340 why is that worse when he was granted a permit to build a plant..that’s not his fault that the city of corpus has a bunch of ignorant irresponsible people that govern the city..he could build this plant anywhere he wanted..if there was a problem…don’t blame someone else for the stupidity of others

  • @SuspiciousGanymede
    @SuspiciousGanymede 21 день назад +6

    Do you know how much water is being used for lawns and concrete foundations? But we have to look pretty for others so we'll all die of dehydration 😊

    • @ReeferMadman
      @ReeferMadman 6 дней назад

      The refineries are using up all the water. It's not the people it's the mega corporations.

  • @A3Kr0n
    @A3Kr0n 20 дней назад +23

    What's important is that growth continues at all costs.

    • @magesalmanac6424
      @magesalmanac6424 20 дней назад +4

      😂

    • @f_pie
      @f_pie 20 дней назад

      You are so smart, just like me, of course, god is always going to make things work, these stupid scientists should shut up and, quit the fearmongering! it will be OK!
      Climate change is not real
      Fossil fuels are life
      it will rain like normal and this BS will be forgoten
      if Corpus Christi runs out of water, it will be cause they are a bunch of SINNERS and they deserve it

    • @kryptoniteKJ
      @kryptoniteKJ 20 дней назад +1

      Yeah they'd rather make $1000 a month vs millions in years

  • @octosquatch.
    @octosquatch. 17 дней назад +1

    They call it unsustainable for a reason

  • @mencken8
    @mencken8 8 дней назад +1

    Another example of government kicking the can down the road while water supplies remain level and the population and water usage increase. Completely predictable.

  • @Strykenine
    @Strykenine 21 день назад +4

    Water management is mandatory in the 21st century - gone are the days when you could just run water all day to keep your lawn green. Just have to do better and hope for some precipitation.

    • @nomaderic
      @nomaderic 20 дней назад

      Unless you have a well

  • @freeheeler09
    @freeheeler09 22 дня назад +5

    Too many people for the available water supply

    • @SuspiciousGanymede
      @SuspiciousGanymede 21 день назад

      Austin is the same way. "we'll be out of water by 2036"
      Well quit building concrete foundations, bringing in more people and watering the lawn to keep up with the Joneses

    • @ReeferMadman
      @ReeferMadman 6 дней назад

      It's the refineries using up all the water, not the people. The people use just a small fraction compared to the refineries. The city offered special incentives to the new plants so they would open here, and one of those incentives was free water or very low cost and some got a special waterline ran directly to the refinery. The city managers greed caused this problem.

  • @elquienelquien1890
    @elquienelquien1890 20 дней назад +2

    Don’t put restrictions. Find the number of gallons per month for the average person. Multiply that by six. Charge the normal rate up to that amount. Anything in excess of that charge at 4 times the rate. I bet people will look for ways to conserve.

    • @ReeferMadman
      @ReeferMadman 6 дней назад

      It's not the people using up all the water, it's the refineries!

  • @silentron1748
    @silentron1748 20 дней назад +8

    Skip to 3:50 in the video before they finally state the real problem: overuse & mismanagement of a limited supply. Welcome to CA part 2.

    • @marnie8007
      @marnie8007 20 дней назад

      You're living in the past. CA cleaned up their water problem. What are the people in charge of Texas doing?

  • @windlinewatersports
    @windlinewatersports 20 дней назад +2

    Lithium battery production needs tons of water

    • @user-jk3ht5hn3m
      @user-jk3ht5hn3m 20 дней назад +1

      Yep just like oil and no where near gas.

  • @tomcook5813
    @tomcook5813 19 дней назад +1

    I bet they are still issuing building permits though…

  • @Novastar.SaberCombat
    @Novastar.SaberCombat 19 дней назад

    No warnings will *ever* be heeded. 💪😎✌️ That's just how humanity rolls, baby. If you're rich, you win. If you ain't, then ya lose. It's as simple as that.

  • @fordtruckman80
    @fordtruckman80 19 дней назад +6

    Hundreds of years ago, people used to move from water source to water source once they dried up. Our population is exploding, but the water sources aren't. What the hell do you think is going to happen?

    • @stevechance150
      @stevechance150 19 дней назад

      Don't let facts get in your way. The "replacement birth rate" for a country to just hold even is 2.1 births per woman. America is currently at 1.6 so our population is not "exploding". They only thing that is keeping our country from shrinking is immigration. It's going to be funny watching the Republican party do a 180° turnaround on immigration when American corporations call the politicians and say "We have run out of workers!!! The boomers all retired and will NOT come back to work, and Gen Z is the smallest generation in HISTORY!!!".

    • @Fluffybunz779
      @Fluffybunz779 12 дней назад

      wtf are you talking about. Straight nonsense

  • @JG-mp5nb
    @JG-mp5nb 21 день назад +3

    Water more expensive than gasoline?

    • @riccardob7774
      @riccardob7774 19 дней назад +1

      it’s already liked that where water shortage is NOT a problem. Premium bottles water is at least more than 4$ per gallon at any store here on the East coast. No need for me to tell you gasoline prices

  • @user-jk3ht5hn3m
    @user-jk3ht5hn3m 20 дней назад +1

    That it’s happening in the heart of denialism makes me believe there is a God.

  • @welcome_to_the_collapse
    @welcome_to_the_collapse 22 дня назад +11

    California's got more than enough water now, and has had for several years. Meanwhile, TX is having nothing but droughts, floods, fires, and tornadoes. No wonder those Texas Californios are moving back to CA in droves.

    • @eriks8382
      @eriks8382 21 день назад +4

      The cost of having a functioning society is living in an extremely expensive state. But at least we don’t die from flesh eating bacteria in the water

    • @eriks8382
      @eriks8382 21 день назад +2

      You can thank abbot for that

  • @christopherort2889
    @christopherort2889 10 дней назад

    No suprise.
    Just go look at the green green yards, and you can see who's using water.

  • @hotttt28
    @hotttt28 20 дней назад

    You reap what you sow!

  • @joemoore5844
    @joemoore5844 21 день назад +1

    What will happen if the polar ice shelves melt?

    • @magesalmanac6424
      @magesalmanac6424 20 дней назад +2

      AMOC weather system collapses, that’s what happens

  • @klove0313
    @klove0313 24 дня назад +5

    This has been going on for at least 4 plus years , we need different Mayor ,different council members! Call Governor Abbott to help yall figure this out. So stupid when yall charge up for every damn thing and can't figure out water issues. Smdh

    • @Me97202
      @Me97202 21 день назад +2

      Your governor is too busy playing politics and helping tRump

    • @klove0313
      @klove0313 21 день назад +2

      @@Me97202 true

  • @DelfinoGarza77
    @DelfinoGarza77 19 дней назад +1

    Industry and farming use the most water, its not the people

    • @ReeferMadman
      @ReeferMadman 6 дней назад

      More industry than farmer. Most our local farmes depend on rain. Some but few irrigate. But you couldn't be any more correct.

  • @michaelmccluskey1155
    @michaelmccluskey1155 17 дней назад +2

    This is what happens when you hire unqualified people to run your company/business/state.
    Tots n Pears folks.

  • @oscar708
    @oscar708 21 день назад +14

    Interesting how Texas is going through what cali was going through. California fixed what they were dumping on the environment. Cali started to be cleaner and using lots of things to become better for air pollution. Look at cali now. Looking good. I think Texas has missed the train.

    • @noplandan4422
      @noplandan4422 21 день назад +2

      California also did a big ass ( still going on) people dump. Most of them ended up here in Texas. Lol.

    • @mathgasm8484
      @mathgasm8484 20 дней назад +1

      Cali people also moved to Texas.

    • @christopherort2889
      @christopherort2889 10 дней назад

      Calis a pos state

  • @anselmolara5896
    @anselmolara5896 23 дня назад +1

    I don't know how you say that you're going to get from the Mary pipeline😊 if the Mary pipeline is going dry

    • @bhambhole
      @bhambhole 20 дней назад

      🎶 good ol' boys fracking and drinking rye 🎶

  • @kingkogs
    @kingkogs 21 день назад +1

    killer 3 news

  • @emilyhale8330
    @emilyhale8330 24 дня назад +2

    Gulf Coast Ventures?

    • @ReeferMadman
      @ReeferMadman 6 дней назад

      Yup, that behemoth uses a lot of water. Also the steel place. All of em are slurppin it up and thanks to the greed of the city managers and advisors. The city promised them 6mil gals a day and gave them their own spigot. Corpus supplys all the water to the surrounding areas. The Mary Rhodes pipeline payed for by the people is now fully in business only use. No people get any of Mary's pipeline. The corporations are eating everything up thanks to the greedy city council.

  • @KevinS-qj3en
    @KevinS-qj3en 25 дней назад +18

    No one to blame but your residents. Every time we visit sprinklers are going all day long without a care in the world.

    • @JL-fx2cd
      @JL-fx2cd 24 дня назад +2

      Really? Come on, it hasn't rained normally in years...

    • @williammattingly2260
      @williammattingly2260 23 дня назад +6

      @@JL-fx2cdthat’s why you don’t waste it watering the grass, really

    • @humanlifeforce
      @humanlifeforce 23 дня назад +2

      I agree, when I lived in CorpAss, it is a different planet.

    • @humanlifeforce
      @humanlifeforce 23 дня назад +4

      ​@@williammattingly2260if the city would encourage people to water at night, it would be ok, better for the plants and less evaporation.
      Plus people shoukd be encouraged to take shorter showers, wash there clothes not on full water loads etc.

    • @klove0313
      @klove0313 22 дня назад +6

      Not residents , city don't know how to manage shit especially being a issuefor more then 5 years! Check out Gabe Lozano golf course, they water about 3 pm and on for awhile , guess residents should go get water from them since they have so much to use......

  • @tvviewer4500
    @tvviewer4500 21 день назад +1

    Got to ask what Elon musk’s tunnel boring company was all about… amazing how water seems to be disappearing from places despite the expected amounts from rain/runoff

  • @cyberdruggie
    @cyberdruggie 20 дней назад +1

    Corrupt gov/system where I live the gov let all the rain water go into the ocean

  • @garybowler5946
    @garybowler5946 19 дней назад +1

    Don't they have a whole ocean to desalinate.

    • @mfblowfish4671
      @mfblowfish4671 18 дней назад

      Hey man to expensive but Ukraine and Israel need thst money

    • @ReeferMadman
      @ReeferMadman 6 дней назад

      If they do the desal thing there will be 5 of them locally and the brine discharge may severely impact the local ecosystem. But the city leaders and news agencies don't care, they are corporations. While a corporation is lawfully considered a person, it does not have a heart.

  • @chadakoin1
    @chadakoin1 20 дней назад +2

    Corpus Crispy

  • @dhoffman4955
    @dhoffman4955 22 дня назад +3

    Too bad they can’t pump water from Houston to Corpus

    • @humanlifeforce
      @humanlifeforce 22 дня назад +2

      Well all that water in Houston simply drains back into the gulf. Houston is just as messed up, just bigger.

    • @Efox1213
      @Efox1213 19 дней назад

      I’ve heard Houston water is treated Dallas wastewater

  • @joshreaperrodriguez
    @joshreaperrodriguez 15 дней назад

    I'm glad I don't live in corpus suck for them and I'm guessing I'm not going to lake for awhile time to go to Canyon Lake again or that lake near Victoria

  • @badneed
    @badneed 19 дней назад

    Ummm HOUSTON had historic flooding 🤷‍♂️

  • @mr.george5370
    @mr.george5370 20 дней назад +2

    I wouldn't worry about water there, NOAA said this hurricane season will be extreme! All lakes will be replenished in the next 6 months

    • @wmpx34
      @wmpx34 20 дней назад

      😂

  • @texasflashcoveinstaller4317
    @texasflashcoveinstaller4317 23 дня назад +12

    Elon Musk’s Boring and using all the dam water 😂😂

  • @danielthrasher2332
    @danielthrasher2332 20 дней назад +3

    UFO's from out of space taking the water.🤠

  • @FigsForYou
    @FigsForYou 17 дней назад

    No doubt its being done on purpose.

  • @rhoefferle
    @rhoefferle 21 день назад

    Get it fixed, I’m retiring in 5 years and I’m moving to CC

  • @user-jk3ht5hn3m
    @user-jk3ht5hn3m 20 дней назад +2

    Let ‘‘em drink oil!

  • @thosethatcan
    @thosethatcan 20 дней назад

    Yt🕵🏽✍🏽 " SAGAN greenhouse speech

  • @josephmann4236
    @josephmann4236 20 дней назад +1

    The Earth, balances itself mainly by water ,that is 70% of the earth’s surface. When man move Billions of tons of soil with so called progress , water in areas will disappear , and then go to other areas that are out of balance. Mother Nature !

  • @thosethatcan
    @thosethatcan 20 дней назад

    EVs do it...IMHO.. 300 miles p charge, 4$ public, 1.75? $ private portable level 2.. ?
    Pay DC fast network co.. some" per charge, some fill auto pay. 15$ tops.. low to 90%?
    Vs 30+$ ...1000$ month someone told me commuting w full size pickup truck.

  • @WeWander2
    @WeWander2 19 дней назад +1

    God is bowling for texas

  • @MichaelInTheDesert
    @MichaelInTheDesert 19 дней назад

    And all the people saying Las Vegas is running out of water…looks like you’ll run out first.

    • @DrPhill96
      @DrPhill96 19 дней назад

      It’s a competition? No, it’s a worldwide crisis.

    • @MichaelInTheDesert
      @MichaelInTheDesert 19 дней назад

      @@DrPhill96 didn’t say that, but the amount of people committing it on other platforms is exhausting.

  • @exhaustus7437
    @exhaustus7437 19 дней назад +1

    Once the current ocean circulation patterns dissipate, everyone is cooked. All it took was ignoring all calls to action for 50 years.
    Graduated from A&M Corpus Christi in '17, life has changed significantly, and the world still isn't facing the foundations A&M Corpus was building on these environmental subjects. Its sad.

  • @williamtomkiel8215
    @williamtomkiel8215 21 день назад

    new Prleans - they got issues too . .

  • @hologramhouse729
    @hologramhouse729 24 дня назад

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
    What do you think
    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
    ???
    Thoughts?¡¿?!¿¡?¿

  • @johndunn9819
    @johndunn9819 22 дня назад +3

    Simply deny you are out of water
    Problem solved 😺

    • @battledragongun
      @battledragongun 22 дня назад

      then your taps run dry then oh shit what do we do now hiding your head in the sand dsnt fix eny thing it makes it worse down the road

    • @eriks8382
      @eriks8382 21 день назад +2

      TrumpiAn alternative facts. Love it. Gaslight people into believing water is a bad thing. Deny deny deny the problem exists, and when shit hits the fan and you have no choice just blame liberals

  • @JL-fx2cd
    @JL-fx2cd 24 дня назад +1

    Wow... this reminds me of CALIFORNIA..? RIGHT?

  • @user-vx7sb5bm5q
    @user-vx7sb5bm5q 18 дней назад

    Maybe Time to build a desalination plant ?

  • @RodManFB
    @RodManFB 14 дней назад

    More BS

  • @edwardstrishock8541
    @edwardstrishock8541 23 дня назад

    Its to bad the knowledge of desalination has not yet been a known thing in the new world

    • @mike_w-tw6jd
      @mike_w-tw6jd 22 дня назад +2

      expensive water

    • @edwardstrishock8541
      @edwardstrishock8541 22 дня назад

      @@mike_w-tw6jd how thirsty are you ??

    • @harold.one.feather
      @harold.one.feather 22 дня назад +1

      You can't drink that at all, I lived on Santa Catalina Island, and I learned the hard way why no one drinks the desalinated water, body starts turning solid like a rock with all the salts still in the water

  • @debpeterson446
    @debpeterson446 20 дней назад +1

    Too much over population

    • @ReeferMadman
      @ReeferMadman 6 дней назад

      Too much government interference. Government caused this lack of water situation.

  • @celebrityrog
    @celebrityrog 21 день назад +4

    You have a nice big ocean and all that Texas power grid power that never goes out so why not desalinate. Or is that too woke and leftist for you.

    • @ReeferMadman
      @ReeferMadman 6 дней назад

      The brine discharge from desal might destroy a delicate ecosystem.

  • @stevechance150
    @stevechance150 19 дней назад +1

    Just click your heels together three times and say "There's no such thing as climate change, There's no such thing as climate change, There's no such thing as climate change ". And keep voting Red.

  • @kennardjohnson7875
    @kennardjohnson7875 22 дня назад +2

    Corpus christi is blind to the fact that desalination produces endless water,.

    • @noplandan4422
      @noplandan4422 21 день назад +1

      Then all of your concentrated chemicals and dunnage from the extraction process is going to DESTROY all life along the coast down here. We are on the docket for not one but TWO desalination plants.

    • @kennardjohnson7875
      @kennardjohnson7875 21 день назад +1

      @@noplandan4422 really why hasn't that happened in Saudi Arabia where all their water comes from salt water, and many countries around there does the same. Maybe you should warn them since they have been doing this for fifty years, and our military bases in the pacific have been doing this for almost 100 years.

    • @michaeldeierhoi4096
      @michaeldeierhoi4096 20 дней назад

      ​@@kennardjohnson7875 Saudi Arabia can afford to spend billions on desalination because they are rich on oil. Stop trying to compare countries rich from oil revenue with small municipalities with a limited budget!!

    • @kennardjohnson7875
      @kennardjohnson7875 20 дней назад

      @@michaeldeierhoi4096 lol,it's obvious you have no clue about the cost of desalination and lake Mathis has silted in so much that it's really half the size it was fifty years ago. Choke canyon was not around fifty years ago, but the problem is corpus christi has been so mismanaged,it's basically a chithole run by incompetent loons.

    • @riccardob7774
      @riccardob7774 19 дней назад

      @@michaeldeierhoi4096Do you really think that a problem this HUGE has to be taken piece meal by every single municipality, instead of being something the State should be involved? Leadership in TX is all about shitting on Big Government, on DC, on solidarity (taxes) but they do it/say it just for political reasons. In reality Big Government is needed when things like this happen.

  • @crematedable
    @crematedable 18 дней назад

    Probably need a desalination plant

  • @Jasonronsteinberger
    @Jasonronsteinberger 21 день назад +3

    i have no sympathy for red states

  • @American-Motors-Corporation
    @American-Motors-Corporation 19 дней назад

    Find a river and dig a canal! Problem solved you're welcome!

  • @douglasvines2037
    @douglasvines2037 21 день назад +1

    So many new people coming to America drinking more water

    • @magesalmanac6424
      @magesalmanac6424 20 дней назад +2

      You really think that’s the problem 😂

  • @texasflashcoveinstaller4317
    @texasflashcoveinstaller4317 23 дня назад +1

    Stop forcing millions into congested cities . Support rural American life

  • @thesjkexperience
    @thesjkexperience 20 дней назад +1

    The problem is climate change, but since Texans don’t believe it, I wonder what they will blame it on 🤪😂🤭

  • @DrewDienno
    @DrewDienno 20 дней назад

    Biden did this somehow just gotta find the facts I like to support it

  • @JTSunriseMusic
    @JTSunriseMusic 22 дня назад

    Neoliberalism

  • @raybarton7725
    @raybarton7725 20 дней назад

    Greg Abbott for president.

  • @davidsecord6412
    @davidsecord6412 16 дней назад +1

    Yeah. O.k. I lived in Corpus Christi from 1980 to 2016. I lived there in 2004, when we didn't have any rain for eight months. The next year, Lake Mathis overran it's banks from the massive amount of rain. It is cyclical. I get the feeling that this is one more "climate crisis" hoax lie, on a local level.