{"id":278955,"date":"2026-05-05T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278955\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:53:08","slug":"how-corpus-christis-water-crisis-got-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278955\/","title":{"rendered":"How Corpus Christi&#8217;s water crisis got so bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">After years of drought, the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, is on the brink of a water emergency. Fresh water sources have dried up, leaving close to half a million people in Texas\u2019 gulf coast at risk of not having drinking water. How did the city get to this point and what solutions are proposed?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keranews.org\/lucio-vasquez-the-texas-newsroom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucio Vasquez<\/a> of The Texas Newsroom reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment aired on May 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of drought, the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, is on the brink of a water emergency.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-278955","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\/278955","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=278955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}