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 learn more, visit DesalDisaster.com. Please add your name to
the following letter to let 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.

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 of demands 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.