City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic disaster without precedent, former officials say.
Because the type of desalination they’ve been proposing is catastrophically short-sighted. They basically want to release all the runoff straight into the bay. You know where all the fishing and tourism is. It would destroy the city. For some reason they have not been willing to consider options of piping it further out into the Gulf.
Not sure why this article is so down on desalination. They’re going need it in the long run.
Because desalination causes ecological harm.
Because the type of desalination they’ve been proposing is catastrophically short-sighted. They basically want to release all the runoff straight into the bay. You know where all the fishing and tourism is. It would destroy the city. For some reason they have not been willing to consider options of piping it further out into the Gulf.