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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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Raw sewage, coming to a waterway near you!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/epa-ruling-sewage-water

The US supreme court has weakened rules on the discharge of raw sewage into water supplies in a 5-4 ruling that undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act.

The CWA is the principle law governing pollution control and water quality of the nation’s waterways.

The Republican super majority court ruled on Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot employ generic, water body-focused pollution discharge limits to Clean Water Act permit holders, and must provide specific limitations to pollution permittees.

The ruling is a win for San Francisco, which challenged nonspecific, or “narrative,” wastewater permits that the EPA issues to protect the quality of surface water sources like rivers and streams relied upon for drinking water.

In a 5-4 ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito, the court blocked the EPA from issuing permits that make a permittee responsible for surface water quality, or “end result” permits – a new term coined by the court.

“The agency has adequate tools to obtain needed information from permittees without resorting to end-result requirements,” wrote Justice Samuel Alito, who was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, along with Justice Neil Gorsuch, who joined part of the majority opinion.

The EPA issued San Francisco a permit allowing it to discharge pollutants from its combined sewer system into the Pacific Ocean. The permit’s conditions include prohibitions on discharges that contribute to a violation of applicable water quality standards. The permit included generic prohibitions on the impacts to water quality, as part of the EPA’s efforts to halt San Francisco’s releases of raw sewage into the Pacific Ocean during rainstorms.

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On 1/24/2025 at 7:22 PM, InkaUtexas said:

San Marcos could run out of water by 2047 if it doesn't act soon, according to the city's utility.

Population projections show the city will have about 303,000 residents by 2070; the city had planned for about half that number.

"So your [water] usage then goes from nearly 19 million gallons a day to over 33 million gallons a day," Tyler Hjorth, director of SMTX Utilities, said in a presentation this week to City Council.

I was actually on the SMTX Utilities Board before I moved away.  Tyler Hjorth is aggy to the core, but he knows and understands this shit backwards and forwards.  

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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

I was actually on the SMTX Utilities Board before I moved away.  Tyler Hjorth is aggy to the core, but he knows and understands this shit backwards and forwards.  

Yeah,  he seems to know his shit. The mayor on the other hand.

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