If Corpus Christi becomes the first modern American city to run out of water, it would take many surrounding communities with it. That’s why six cities and towns in the Coastal Bend region of Texas ...

Corpus Christi’s residents and massive petrochemical industry could soon be forced to cut water use by as much as 25% amid an historic drought. City leaders have been scrambling for months to avoid ...

This story was published in partnership with the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Corpus Christi city leaders are reviewing a draft plan that could significantly change how residents use water at home to protect the city's supply against drought conditions.

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JIM WELLS COUNTY, Texas—Dwindling levels in this region’s main reservoirs have triggered a rush on local aquifers as cities, towns, chemical plants and ranchers drill for water. The nearby city of ...

For years, climate scientists have projected that South Texas would grow hotter and drier—that drought cycles would lengthen, that rainfall would become less reliable, and that the water systems built ...

When Thiago Campos bought the Mr. Fancy Pants Carwash business in Corpus Christi, Texas, three years ago, he wasn’t thinking about drought. He was familiar with varnishes and waxes and enjoyed ...

The rapidly receding shoreline of Lake Corpus Christi in Texas has revealed swaths of newly exposed lakebed, left boat docks jutting out into nothingness and uncovered previously submerged remnants of ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (KBTX) - Texas’s eighth-largest city is two months away from a full-blown water emergency. Corpus Christi, home to roughly half a million people, is caught between years of ...

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