{"id":284183,"date":"2026-05-08T09:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284183\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:46:19","slug":"corpus-christi-to-begin-talks-on-privately-built-desalinization-plant-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284183\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi to begin talks on privately built desalinization plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HCRMMRXNOFAFBEFDDLD3XTDUMU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Seven months after axing their own seawater desalination plant project \u2014 and five months from when a water crisis is expected to surface \u2014 Corpus Christi City Council voted 6-2 Tuesday to begin preliminary talks with a new company to build a desalination facility for the Coastal Bend area.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FYN4KCF2JFADVFG6F7UD352G3A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">AXE H20, a 2-month-old private company based in Houston, is seeking to build a plant that could produce 150 million gallons of drinking water a day. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/axeh2otexascoastalbend.com\/docs\/council-brief-2026-05-05.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">presentation Tuesday<\/a> , the city could pay $6.50 per 1,000 gallons \u2014 about 30% cheaper than a controversial plan to revive a city-built desalination plant known as the Inner Harbor Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven months after axing their own seawater desalination plant project \u2014 and five months from when a water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[104483,910,155,157,156,104484,100535,104482,288,490,83502,287,83503,1499,104481,13003,2993],"class_list":["post-284183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-2026-election-news","tag-business","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-election-latest-news","tag-election-news","tag-election-news-2026","tag-elections","tag-general-news","tag-manufacturing-sector","tag-politics","tag-production-facilities","tag-u-s-news","tag-us-corpus-christi-water-shortage","tag-water-quality","tag-water-shortages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284183","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=284183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}