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About $45 million will go to Texas towns with fewer than 1,000 residents — a boon for municipalities without a viable tax base.
Texas is losing billions of gallons of water each year due to outdated water infrastructure. Smaller rural towns that lack a taxbase are particularly behind in updating their pipes and valves. State lawmakers in 2023 asked voters to approve the $1 billion to help municipalities fix broken pipes. “We have a whole lot more applications that are submitted than we have capacity in any given program year to provide financial assistance,” said Kathleen Ligon, the interim executive administrator at the Water Development Board.
Communities can expect to see improvements to their systems from this new money in about a year, said Perry Fowler, executive director of the Texas Water Infrastructure Network, a trade association representing public and private construction companies.
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