Chris Cuellar’s eyes scan the eight-inch pipe that’s spewing water on the other side of the chain-link fence. Drawn from hundreds of feet below the surface, the water tumbles down a short spillway that leads straight into the Nueces River. It will flow roughly five miles downstream, to the intake pipes of the City of Corpus Christi’s O. N. Stevens Water Treatment Plant. From there, a vast network of pipes will carry it to homes and businesses.We’re a dozen miles outside the city limits, in unincorporated Nueces County, just a couple minutes’ drive from Cuellar’s house. In one hand, the 65-year-old holds a water probe that’s attached to a spool of cord, and in the other, he holds a portable digital readout. With this gear, he’s…The post Corpus Christi’s Water Crisis Sparks a Fight With Its Neighbors appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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