{"id":213534,"date":"2026-03-20T22:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/213534\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:29:12","slug":"tceq-officials-warn-corpus-christi-water-supply-could-run-low-by-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/213534\/","title":{"rendered":"TCEQ officials warn Corpus Christi water supply could run low by May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Corpus Christi faces a critical water shortage, with reservoirs projected to run dry by May 2026, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Executive Director Kelly Keel and Deputy Executive Director Steven Schar emphasized, \u201cEmergency measures are essential to ensure residents have access to safe and reliable water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/corpus-christi-mayor-calls-emergency-170856895.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Corpus Christi Mayor calls emergency vote on desalination project after Gov. Abbott warns state could intervene;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Corpus Christi Mayor calls emergency vote on desalination project after Gov. Abbott warns state could intervene&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corpus Christi Mayor calls emergency vote on desalination project after Gov. Abbott warns state could intervene<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lake Corpus Christi and Choke Canyon Reservoirs, which supply most of the city\u2019s water, have dropped below 10% capacity after five years of drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cResidents\u2019 health and safety are our top priority,\u201d Governor Greg Abbott said. \u201cThe State will not allow regulatory barriers to delay access to water during this disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In January, the city requested a TCEQ permit to convey additional water down the Nueces River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The governor has now suspended state rules limiting temporary permits, allowing Corpus Christi to access up to 29,034 acre-feet of groundwater per year from the Gulf Coast aquifer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor Paulette Guajardo said, \u201cThis emergency measure ensures our community can continue to rely on safe, reliable water while we address long-term solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drought conditions in Nueces County have been included in a disaster proclamation first issued in July 2022 and renewed monthly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The emergency suspensions apply only to Corpus Christi\u2019s use of the Nueces River and are intended to provide immediate municipal water relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi faces a critical water shortage, with reservoirs projected to run dry by May 2026, Texas Commission&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,24086,6944,9871,4701,4702,15710],"class_list":["post-213534","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-executive-director","tag-governor-greg-abbott","tag-lake-corpus-christi","tag-tceq","tag-texas-commission-on-environmental-quality","tag-water-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213534","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=213534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}