{"id":322823,"date":"2026-06-04T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/322823\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:08:08","slug":"water-districts-attorney-says-new-taps-must-be-allowed-despite-area-water-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/322823\/","title":{"rendered":"Water district\u2019s attorney says \u2026 New taps must be allowed despite area water shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBecause it\u2019s illegal.\u201d That was Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District No. 4 Attorney Charlie Zahn\u2019s response when asked why issuing new water and utility service connections would not stop, even if the region enters a Level 1 water emergency. Amid the ongoing water crises in South Texas, many residents here in Port Aransas, and beyond, have asked that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/articles\/water-districts-attorney-says-new-taps-must-be-allowed-despite-area-water-shortage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/register\/single-issue-purchase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase Single Issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full version of this story will be available to all readers after\u00a02 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Full versions of news stories from the most recent 2 weeks are available to online subscribers only. Access to full versions of news stories from issues older than 2 weeks are available to all readers for free in our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portasouthjettywp.our-hometown.com\/port-aransas-south-jetty-archives\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">archive<\/a>\u00a0of all issues.<\/p>\n<p>Not an online subscriber yet?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portasouthjettywp.our-hometown.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign Up Here<\/a><br \/>Purchase this online single issue\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/register\/single-issue-purchase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBecause it\u2019s illegal.\u201d That was Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District No. 4 Attorney Charlie Zahn\u2019s response&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-322823","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\/322823","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=322823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}