{"id":348379,"date":"2026-06-24T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348379\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:39:08","slug":"corpus-christi-gets-reprieve-from-drought-emergency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348379\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi gets reprieve from drought emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corpus Christi, the South Texas city that was nearing a water emergency earlier this year, has received a nine-month reprieve after recent rains partially refilled key reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials had been warning that they were months away from having to <a href=\"https:\/\/links.us1.defend.egress.com\/Warning?crId=6a3afd6a7d1c5467cfb28a37&amp;Domain=politico.com&amp;Threat=eNpzrShJLcpLzAEADmkDRA%3D%3D&amp;Lang=en&amp;Base64Url=eNoVyFEOgzAIANATIVU3s3mbymhK4koDNF5_7vO9GtF9R_RxOJkcbFPXU0JIu-lE-sVst05G5saX45KWDdMT5xV7Nqr8AVLrw4GqiYdAVOMc3BxCgUaAlgLXPfYP4yKNTdghpff8Wh_bD8fsL5s%3D&amp;@OriginalLink=subscriber.politicopro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">curtail customers\u2019 water use<\/a> by 25 percent, which could affect residents and major industrial users such as refineries and petrochemical plants.<\/p>\n<p>But the emergency deadline has moved from this December to September 2027, City Manager Peter Zanoni announced Tuesday during a Corpus Christi City Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rains have moved it nine months into 2027,\u201d Zanoni said to a smattering of applause, \u201cwhich is clap-worthy for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi, the South Texas city that was nearing a water emergency earlier this year, has received a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-348379","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\/348379","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=348379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}