{"id":153338,"date":"2026-02-06T06:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153338\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T06:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:09:21","slug":"a-big-moment-in-a-years-long-fight-over-san-antonios-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153338\/","title":{"rendered":"A big moment in a years-long fight over San Antonio\u2019s drinking water."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0February 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM<\/p>\n<p>Tags:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/news\/\" title=\"View more stories about news\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">A big moment in a years-long fight over San Antonio\u2019s drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>City Council voted NO on a way for the developer to pay for the Guajolote Ranch project \u2014 a major win for the people who\u2019ve been fighting to protect the Edwards Aquifer, the drinking water source for 2.5 million people in Central Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed development would bring about 3,000 homes to northwest Bexar County and require a wastewater treatment plant built over a sensitive aquifer system \u2014 raising concerns about treated sewage entering the same water source San Antonio relies on.<\/p>\n<p>This vote doesn\u2019t stop the project entirely \u2014 but it creates a major roadblock for how developers move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0February 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM Tags:\u00a0news A big moment in a years-long fight over San Antonio\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[223,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-153338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","11":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153338","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=153338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}