cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/37592302
No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi, Texas, could be the first. Absent a biblical rainfall event, its reservoirs are on track to completely dry up by next year.
That raises baffling questions for the future of Texas’ eighth-largest city and one of the nation’s major petrochemical hubs.
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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 124d
Use all that oil money to build a desalinization plant??? They're on the gulf, the water is right there.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 123d
I want more play on the town's name. This one's weak.
I already saw
but that's just name-calling, there must be something better.