Seven months after axing their own seawater desalination plant project — and five months from when a water crisis is expected to surface — Corpus Christi City Council voted 6-2 Tuesday to begin preliminary talks with a new company to build a desalination facility for the Coastal Bend area.
AXE H20, a 2-month-old private company based in Houston, is seeking to build a plant that could produce 150 million gallons of drinking water a day. According to a presentation Tuesday , the city could pay $6.50 per 1,000 gallons — about 30% cheaper than a controversial plan to revive a city-built desalination plant known as the Inner Harbor Project.