Texas lost enough water to fill the AT&T stadium — home of the Dallas Cowboys — about 170 times over in 2021 due in part to pipe infrastructure breaks and leaks. Advocates hope Texas’ budget surplus and federal funding will be used to remedy the problem.
. And lawmakers are poised to pass a bill that could inject billions of dollars into new water supply projects and repairs to water infrastructure.
Much of the state’s water infrastructure is old and deteriorating, and public water systems are struggling to find the funds to keep up with needed repairs and increased demand from communities with growing populations.The ages of Texas’ pipes vary both across and within water systems. The oldest pipes date back to as early as theThere is no centralized database that keeps track of the age of Texas’ water systems.
which puts pressure and stress on the pipes underground. And more intense heat accelerates water evaporation from Texas’ reservoirs. An example of this was last summer when the state experienced A handful of other unincorporated neighborhoods in Texas, such as Sandbranch, near Dallas, have gone without traditional water systems.The older Texas’ water pipes get, the bigger the threat they are to the state’s water supply. Whether it’s losing billions of gallons of water because of a line break or a leaky pipe contaminating water with lead, the age of the state’s water infrastructure impacts public safety.
At least 30 billion gallons of the loss were caused by reported breaks and leaks that water agencies repaired in 2021, according to the report. The other 100 billion gallons can be attributed to faulty infrastructure and other issues, state officials said. One region defined by the board reported nearly 20 billion gallons lost to breaks or leaks alone. That region, known as Region H, includes Harris County, the state’s most populous.
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