{"id":289362,"date":"2026-05-12T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289362\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:21:11","slug":"see-video-explaining-corpus-christis-seawater-desalination-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289362\/","title":{"rendered":"See video explaining Corpus Christi&#8217;s seawater desalination projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY;\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"USA TODAY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"174\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-07\/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Crow, Corpus Christi Caller Times<\/p>\n<p>Tue, May 12, 2026 at 9:45 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>In its battle against the drought racking the region, city of Corpus Christi officials have been actively pursuing four seawater desalination proposals \u2014 one of its own and three that would be in coordination with private or other public entities.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of a layered strategy to build supply, augmenting other initiatives to pump groundwater from several well fields and develop treated effluent for industrial uses.<\/p>\n<p>Included among the desalination projects are the city\u2019s endeavor to construct a plant at the Inner Harbor site, a potential purchase of water from Corpus Christi Polymers\u2019 plant, investment into the Nueces River Authority\u2019s Harbor Island plans and exploration of a public-private partnership for a possible facility near the Barney Davis Power Plant.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a short video showing the seawater desalination projects in progress and their current statuses.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Crow covers city government and water news. Have a story idea? Contact her at kirsten.crow@caller.com.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Consider supporting local journalism with a\u00a0subscription to the Caller-Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/offers.caller.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPTOPNAVBAR&amp;utm_campaign=specialoffer&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=topnavbar\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Consider supporting local journalism with a\u00a0subscription to the Caller-Times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Corpus Christi Caller Times: <a data-ylk=\"slk:See video explaining four desalination proposals in Corpus Christi;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caller.com\/story\/news\/local\/our-water\/2026\/05\/12\/video-corpus-christi-texas-seawater-desalination-project-proposal\/89980381007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">See video explaining four desalination proposals in Corpus Christi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirsten Crow, Corpus Christi Caller Times Tue, May 12, 2026 at 9:45 AM UTC In its battle against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3029,155,157,156,105966],"class_list":["post-289362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-city-of-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-seawater-desalination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289362","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=289362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}