{"id":129684,"date":"2026-01-20T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:24:06","slug":"corpus-christi-water-crisis-a-national-security-issue-says-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129684\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi water crisis a &#8216;national security&#8217; issue says congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Congressman Vicente Gonzalez talked to me in a one-on-one interview about the water woes Corpus Christi is now facing. <\/p>\n<p>The Congressman tells me he brought up the issue to the transportation and infrastructure committee in Washington, D.C., saying this problem isn&#8217;t just a Texas issue but a national security issue because Corpus Christi is a major exporter of crude oil. He wants the federal government to step in and help find a sustainable solution to this problem.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________<br \/>WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE: <\/p>\n<p>Congressman Vicente Gonzalez Jr. speaks with KRIS 6 about the water crisis<\/p>\n<p>WATCH WHAT CONGRESSMAN GONZALEZ HAD TO SAY IN WASHINGTON DC HERE: <\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Congressman Vicente Gonzalez talked to me in a one-on-one interview about the water woes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,23409,33440,55631,55632,30820],"class_list":["post-129684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-corpus-christi-water-crisis","tag-running-dry","tag-running-out-of-water","tag-south-texas-water","tag-water-woes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}