Texas Water Plan Needs Updating | Amarillo News

Corpus Christi narrowly avoided a water crisis this year, exposing flaws in Texas’s decades-old water planning system that failed to anticipate the severity of recent droughts. Built on outdated data and over-reliance on the “drought of record,” the current “bottom-up” approach missed critical signals from multiple severe droughts since its inception. With the Coastal Bend facing historic water stress, experts urge immediate upgrades: better data, stress-testing for extreme scenarios, and clearer goals to build resilient infrastructure for a growing, drought-prone state. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/f2aec644f36f82d8