{"id":271670,"date":"2026-04-29T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271670\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:34:10","slug":"do-we-flush-texas-city-balks-at-25-water-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271670\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Do we flush?\u2019 Texas city balks at 25% water cuts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council in Corpus Christi, Texas, voted Tuesday to set aside a plan that could require residents and refiners to cut their water usage by 25 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The decision followed a barrage of pushback from citizens in South Texas about how curtailments could affect everything from the number of times they bathe to how hospitals would operate.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Corpus Christi estimated at a public meeting that the region could face a water emergency by September, which would trigger the water curtailments. The coastal city\u2019s water supplies have been pushed to the brink by a yearslong drought and a growing industrial sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking at my husband saying, \u2018Are we showering together or what?\u2019\u201d said Susan Gonzalez, a small business owner who has a household of four, during public comments Tuesday. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at the toilet and we\u2019re like, \u2018Do we flush? Do we not flush?\u2019 We are doing our part, but there\u2019s just no way that I can cut 5,000 to 6,000 gallons [a month].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City Council in Corpus Christi, Texas, voted Tuesday to set aside a plan that could require residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-271670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271670","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=271670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}