{"id":384980,"date":"2026-07-24T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/384980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:18:10","slug":"poll-how-concerned-are-you-about-central-texas-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/384980\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: How concerned are you about Central Texas&#8217; water supply?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin City Council has unanimously approved a resolution that aims to increase oversight of the city&#8217;s largest water users. The measure does not create new requirements for data centers or other major customers, but it begins a process that could lead to additional regulations in the future. This comes amid concerns about Central Texas&#8217; water supply. In April, the Texas Water Development Board said Texas communities across the state would need to spend $174 billion in the next 50 years to avert a severe water crisis.<\/p>\n<p>How concerned are you about Central Texas&#8217; water supply? ANSWER BELOW to vote in our morning poll and see the results <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVE<\/a> on CBS Austin This Morning from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-city-council-approves-first-step-toward-oversight-of-large-water-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MORE INFO | Austin City Council approves first step toward oversight of large water users<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin City Council has unanimously approved a resolution that aims to increase oversight of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-384980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384980","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=384980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}