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2 hours ago, elfenix said:

maybe we should stop having lawns.

grass in peoples' yards is the largest crop in america by acreage.

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corpus is running out of water, partly because the city and the port couldn't decide who should build the desal plant:

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/corpus-christi-texas-desalination-reservoirs-water-industrial-demand/

I heard that tonight crazy 

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12 hours ago, elfenix said:

maybe we should stop having lawns.

grass in peoples' yards is the largest crop in america by acreage.

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corpus is running out of water, partly because the city and the port couldn't decide who should build the desal plant:

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/corpus-christi-texas-desalination-reservoirs-water-industrial-demand/

Add this to the long list of failures for both privately and publicly funded infrastructure improvements and development opportunities for the Coastal Bend.  Corpus Christi and Nueces County have over a century of corruption and bureaucratic entanglement that have kept my hometown as a laughing stock.  Home Port.  The Packery Channel "resort" and development.  Schlitterbahn.  The new Harbor Bridge engineering fiasco.  The Desal Plant.  The list goes on and on....

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16 hours ago, elfenix said:

maybe we should stop having lawns.

grass in peoples' yards is the largest crop in america by acreage.

 

Agreed on getting rid of lawns. We also need to do brush control. South Texas, the gulf coast, and much of West Texas in the early 1800s were plains of grassland. Most of East Texas was old growth pine spaced out wide enough where you could drive a wagon through the woods with grasses growing underneath.  The hill country was oak mottes with grassland, where cedar (juniper) only existed in the steepest canyons due to protection from wildfires.

All of those cedar, mesquite, and huisache trees suck up tons of water. There are places in the hill country/Llano uplift/Concho valley where they have done brush clearing where springs and creeks have begun to flow for the first time in over 100 years. A lot of water issues are due to us fucking up the natural environment. Certainly the large population doesn't help.

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