It’s time to SHUT DOWN the Inner Harbor desal plant, once and for all.


Corpus Christi City Council

NOW is the time to make your voice heard!

The $3.6 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, and recent rains have delivered relief from the worst drought conditions.

Meanwhile marine scientists warn that the proposed desal 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.


Please sign up to add your name to the following letter to let the City Council know where you stand!

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

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

This $3.6 billion 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. It’s now time to shut down the Inner Harbor project, once and for all.