It’s time to END the Inner Harbor desalination disaster!

Corpus Christi City Council

NOW is the time to make your voice heard!

The $1 billion Inner Harbor desalination project is being driven by demand from heavy industry, which already uses 60% of our region’s water but provides less than 10% of local jobs. Coastal Bend residents would see a massive spike in residential water bills all to fund future industrial expansion, not solve the region’s water crisis. The City Council has already invested in faster, cheaper, less risky alternatives to address our immediate needs.

Meanwhile marine scientists warn that the proposed plant’s daily discharge of 50 million gallons of concentrated, super-salty wastewater into our shallow, enclosed bay system could create oxygen-depleted “dead zones” that suffocate fish, shrimp, crabs, and the aquatic life the Coastal Bend’s $1.5 billion tourism economy depends on. Separately, an independent study has revealed elevated levels of PFAS “forever chemicals” in the Inner Harbor, raising other serious environmental and public health concerns.

The Corpus Christi City Council is scheduled to vote on the Inner Harbor plant on Tuesday, June 2. To speak at the meeting, sign up here starting at 8am on Monday, June 1. To learn more, visit DesalDisaster.com

Please add your name to the following letter to let City Council know where you stand. We’ll print your letter and deliver it to City Hall!

To: Corpus Christi City Council
From: [Your Name]

I urge you to vote NO on the proposed Inner Harbor desalination plant.

Corpus Christi's credit rating has recently been downgraded, meaning this billion-dollar project would burden residents with expensive debt and skyrocketing water bills, only to meet the demands of industrial users.

The plant also risks grave environmental consequences. Discharging concentrated brine daily into our bay could create “dead zones” that devastate the marine life our tourism industries and economy depends on.

Finally, siting this plant within to the Hillcrest neighborhood, a marginalized community already overburdened by industrial pollution, raises serious environmental justice concerns the City Council must not ignore.

As a Council you have already invested in faster, cheaper and less risky alternatives to solve our immediate water crisis. That makes the Inner Harbor plant a problem, not a solution. I again urge you to vote NO.