Human-Rights Shortage

I recently watched a podcast with an MKUltra survivor who began the podcast with him saying he does not promote violence. He was referring to the perpetrators. It was an overall worthwhile podcast to take the time to listen to and and I have a great deal of respect for this survivor and his testimony that he has brought forth through which he helps many other people. In conjunction with the release of the Epstein Files and recently there have been some more released, a similar message of not promoting violence is heard. Understood, that unjustified violence is not sought, but Lawful action is not unjustified (which is being lumped into a mix of “violence” in general), yet it has people afraid to even dare speak of justified Lawful action. What has happened to humanity? That which actually protects human rights (The Law of God) has been chiseled at and allowed to be dismantled to the point of non existence. Lawful “violence” (call it what you will) is necessary and justified. T.H.E.Y. have assumed control and the warning signs could not be more clear.

I live in a rural community where the neighboring city is stealing water from the rural communities and draining the aquifers due to conditions of drought. There are other alternatives, but those alternatives are ignored, dismissed and talked about and fought over for years. Eventually, and it will not take too long due to the amount of water being stolen, that the aquifers, wells will run dry. No water equals no community, no life. The trees, vegetation will die.The means to fight such unLawfulness has weakened to the point that the need for permits (to at least help to bide some time) are disregarded and THEY just continue to do it anyway. Even the rural wealthy landowners, who in the past won such battles are failing. Humanity is at the point when the enemy realizes that no-one has the power or is going to stop THEM. The genocide in GAZA has made that globally apparent. That there have been no high-level arrests of the pedophile, murderous leaders has made that globally apparent.

Truly the patience of Father and The Lord is Divine.

Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Ecclesiastes

7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
7:10 Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
7:11 Wisdom [is] as good as an inheritance, yea, better too: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.
7:12 For Wisdom [is] a defence, [and] money [is] a defence: but the excellency of Knowledge [is, that] Wisdom giveth Life to them that have it.
7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which He hath made crooked?
7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing more important than Him.
7:15 All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.
7:16 Be not too self righteous; neither consider thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
7:17 Be not too wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

7:18 [It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth from them all.
7:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty [men] which are in the city.

7:20 For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out Wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness:
7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] binders: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [weighing] one thing after another, to find out the reason:

8:6 Because to every purpose there is time and Judgment, therefore the misery of man [is] great upon him.
8:7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily , therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

8:12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his [days] be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear in front of Him:

8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity

9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

9:12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by His Wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

9:16 Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's Wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard.

9:17 The words of wise [men are] heard in quiet more than the shout of him that ruleth among fools.

9:18 Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Ephesians

6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with Truth, and having on the Breastplate of Righteousness;
6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

10:20 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

11:6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not which shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both alike [shall be] good

12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His Commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty ] of man.
12:14 For God shall bring every work into Judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.

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Ground water projects are not a solution since they are draining the aquifers from surrounding rural communities that face their wells drying out. Some are already seeing the effects of their wells running dry. See article below.

This Is the First American City That

Could Run Out of Water

Corpus Christi, Texas, could be the first American city to run out of water. Working people face drought restrictions, but oil and gas companies guzzle water — and pay less than everyone else. Six huge corporate water users consume 3x as much as everyone in town. Correction at [7:18] The City Council voted down plans for the desalination plant September 2025, not 2026.
Article: Residents fear Corpus Christi water expansion plans will drain their rural wells dry https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/in-your-neighborhood/refugio-county/refugio-county-residents-fear-corpus-christi-water-expansion-plans-will-drain-their-rural-wells-dry

Weather Warfare

Droughts - Life in the West

When will The End come?
When the Holy people have lost their power.

Daniel 8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the Holy people. Bible Verses from the King of kings' Bible - #131 by NancyDrewberry

UPRISING Against AI Data Centers

Very Disturbing "STAR GATE" Project. In the Near Future: SAME PEOPLE- DIFFERENT PRICES?

The Data Centers are Coming for You

By classifying their Data Centers as critical military infrastructure, the NWO controllers bypass local zoning laws and secure federal funding. These data centers will become the backbone of the coming technocracy. When you hear the word “data center,” realize it’s a euphemism for complete AI surveillance and control. - M.F.

2:12 Nature was to supply the means for food, water and shelter, which make up three of the five basic necessities, or God given rights (human rights), the fourth, of equal importance, being free- will. Freewill (freedom) to decide, whether to continue to follow Satan, or to follow God’s guidance and learn to be good, without being forced, but instead, by loving encouragement, is of the UTMOST importance. TWHOFTF

Life Under Surveillance: Can a Monitored Soul Be Free?

Governments worldwide are building the same interlocking grid - facial recognition, AI analytics, digital IDs, and massive new data centers. But when every move, every word, and every behavior is monitored… is real freedom even possible?
00:00 Data Centers & Life Under Surveillance
05:04 Can A Monitored Soul Ever Truly Be Free?
10:26 The Other Side Of The Argument
11:40 Ending With “The Big Question”.

The Hope is that it will Rain (physical, mental, spiritual blessings) again and there will be no more Drought.

In the Beginning, there was a mist:
Genesis 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Dune (1984) Final Scene

Daniel 8:19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end [shall be].
8:20 The ram which thou sawest having [two] horns [are] the kings of Media and Persia.
8:21 And the rough goat [is] the king of Grecia: and the great horn that [is] between his eyes [is] the first king.
8:22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the Holy people.
8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify [himself] in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

DATA CENTERS - What Are They???

Bright Videos News, Sep 1, 2026 - AI Data Centers Are Training Replacements For Humanity + New Physics Theory of Everything With Dr. Yu (DTV)

Texas is a Freemason State to the 33rd degree. In some locations, its leadership are largely anti-white racists (Mexicans), i.e. the Kalergi Plan. The video and articles below explain even more about the corrupt State of Texas.

Texas’ new “Pro-Israel” public school curriculum

Articles: Texas schools to teach Israel was founded in 'ancestral homeland of the Jews' MSN
State education board finalizes anti-Islamic rewrite of Texas social studies lessons https://apnews.com/article/high-school-social-studies-curriculum-texas-204ad809280083f9916eccb785705d00

Corpus Christi, facing a dire water shortage, tried unsuccessfully for more than a decade to build a municipal desalination plant. Now an Israeli company plans to build a privately operated one

Texas is giving control of its water supply to an Israeli company called IDE

Video: James Li reporting. Aired 30th October 2026. This is part of a larger scheme to co-mingle American infrastructure to Israel, as to make it impossible for the U.S. to ever divest. The head of the project, Mark Ellison literally said: “We haven’t changed the star on the Texas flag to the Star of David yet, but who knows.”

Article:

Texas could end up paying an Israeli company billions to desalinate Gulf of Mexico water

CORPUS CHRISTI - Plans are moving ahead for an enormous seawater desalination plant on Texas' Gulf Coast, described as the largest in the Western Hemisphere. But unlike other big water projects, this one wouldn't be a public undertaking. It would belong to a private water supplier based in Israel.

IDE Technologies, which operates some of the largest seawater desalination plants in the world, was awarded the contract for the Harbor Island project by the Nueces River Authority.

"For our company, globally, this is Project One," IDE's regional sales director, Mark Ellison, told the river authority's board of directors in September. "Our top priority."

In Texas, rapid population growth and drought have combined to stretch water supplies to their limits. Generations of state leaders have touted the promise of seawater desalination, which would produce freshwater from the salty Gulf of Mexico. But Texas still awaits its first such facility.

Today, IDE's Harbor Island project on Corpus Christi Bay is the largest of five seawater desalination plants planned in the state.

The development of seawater desalination would unlock an abundant new source of water. But it would come at a high cost to consumers, and in the case of IDE would mark a transfer of the public water supply to private ownership. The company plans to sell the freshwater it generates to the city of Corpus Christi.

"We've been here for a decade getting ready to get this started," Ellison, a former state water official, said during a presentation last month to officials in Corpus Christi, the nation's largest export hub for crude oil. "We're moving very actively to get going."

According to IDE, the Harbor Island plant would produce up to 100 million gallons per day of freshwater. It would include nearly seven miles of two-story, underwater tunnels, plus a vast system of pipelines and pump stations running more than 200 miles inland to towns and cities in South and Central Texas.

IDE plans to finance and build the plant. The Nueces River Authority would develop the pipelines. The project's total cost is estimated at $6.4 billion. In cost and complexity, it would rival the iconic aqueducts, pipelines and dams of the American West.

"It would be one of the more ambitious projects in U.S. history," said Drew Molly, a former chair of the American Waterworks Association and chief water officer for the city of Houston.

On Sept. 23, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved a final permit for the Harbor Island plant.

Elsewhere on the coast, IDE announced plans in April for a desalination plant near Brownsville that would produce 50 million gallons per day. Nearby, a small public utility, the Laguna Madre Water District, is developing its own plant with a capacity of 5 million gallons per day.

A Canadian company, EPCOR, announced plans last year for a 27 million gallons per day (MGD) desalination plant near Houston. A plastics manufacturing complex, CC Polymers, plans to boot up a 9 MGD plant early next year. Like IDE, it wants to sell water to Corpus Christi, which has tried unsuccessfully for more than a decade to build its own desalination plant.

"The private sector realizes that water is a scarce resource," Molly said. "And the private sector wants to capitalize."

It goes beyond desalination. Across the state, private and investor-owned water projects have cropped up in recent years, aiming to pump large volumes of groundwater and sell it to cities and subdivisions. That bucks the traditional model in Texas, where water supplies are typically owned by cities, towns, river authorities or utility districts.

"Water infrastructure should be owned by the community, not the property of a private company that is making a profit," Molly said.

Corpus Christi plans to start buying water next year from a desalination plant at CC Polymers, a plastics manufacturing complex. The plant is jointly owned by companies from Taiwan, Indonesia and Mexico.

The city also plans to buy water at an as-yet-undetermined price from IDE's Harbor Island plant.

Roland Barrera, a member of the Corpus Christi City Council, is not happy about it. "I'm quite reluctant to move in that direction," he said. "It's better that the public agency owns the system."

Price of Private Water

IDE plans to announce in January what it will charge for water from the Harbor Island plant. After that, Corpus Christi will decide whether or not to sign a long-term contract, which would require the city to pay for water whether it uses it or not.

"It's too much uncertainty," Barrera said. "It's going to be very expensive."

Desalinated seawater is the priciest water supply option. Public utilities must provide water at the cost of service, while private purveyors can and do seek to maximize profits.

A private project wouldn't be eligible for the low-interest government loans. Costs to borrow money in private equity markets are nearly twice as high. That's a mayor reason why privately financed water projects remain rare, said Mary Grant, water policy director for the nonprofit Food and Water Watch.

"It's not very common, just because it's very expensive," she said.

The higher financing costs will be passed on to customers, Grant said. Household water bills in the U.S. grew faster than inflation, grocery prices or median household income in recent years, according to a Food and Water Watch report released last month.

"Privatization will only exacerbate this affordability crisis," Grant said.

Corpus Christi City Council member Gil Hernandez disagrees. While some costs of private waters projects are higher, others are lower, he said.

"Our cost to borrow the money is cheaper. However, our cost to build things is much more expensive," he said. "We tend to pay two to three times as much as the private sector for construction."

Around the world, seawater desalination plants are owned and operated by companies, not by governments, said Hernandez, a former naval officer and sales manager at Coca-Cola Co.

Ellison said in an interview that private ownership protects communities from financial risks associated with enormous infrastructure projects.

"The private people put skin in the game," he said. "That's why we want to make good bets."

Customers sign contracts with a guaranteed price of water before construction of a desalination plant begins. Developers assume all risk if projects cost more than expected, as happened in Corpus Christi.

"Politics are colorful down here, but we don't do politics and drama," Ellison said. "We build plants."

Desalination in Texas

Ellison joined IDE in 2015, but his role in the development of Texas' desalination policy goes back further than that.

With a bachelor's degree in agricultural education from Texas A&M University, Ellison has served as director of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, as a founding board member of the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce, as a special advisor to the Texas Water Development Board and as manager of strategic water initiatives in the office of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Almost 25 years have passed since Perry launched an initiative to test large-scale seawater desalination in Texas. In that time, California and Florida saw their first plants come online.

But in Texas, companies including Massachusetts-based Poseidon Water, Kansas-based Kiewit and Florida-based Seven Seas pursued projects that ultimately stalled, unable to compete with the low cost of water from Texas' aquifers and rivers.

"We have had very prolific rivers up to this point," said Kyle Frazier, executive director of the Texas Desalination Association, an industry group. "In the last 10 years, as the drought has become more persistent, the end users have started looking for other options."

IDE began planning its first Texas project in 2015 at Port Freeport, south of Houston, where Dow Chemical Co. needed water to expand its manufacturing complex. That project stalled after Dow decided to enlarge its reservoir instead.

Desalination works best at scale, when large facilities can supply large water markets, said Sean Strawbridge, a former CEO of the Port of Corpus Christi who later founded a company called US Desalination.

"Texas is a fragmented market," he said. "It's a very inefficient market because water has historically been left to small utilities."

In contrast, Strawbridge pointed to Israel, where the government developed a nationwide network of pipelines. In Israel, which gets the vast majority of its domestic water supply from desalinated seawater, a treatment facility built anywhere in the country can easily connect to customers everywhere.

Israel is about the size of the nine-county Houston region. Building a similar system in Texas would be a monumental endeavor, but that hasn't stopped state leaders from trying.

"If a dry, arid nation of 15 million people can solve for its water problems, there's no reason why the great state of Texas, with 30 million people, can't," Strawbridge said.

'The Two Lone Star States'

IDE was there when Israel first confronted its water problem, Lihy Teurstein, CEO of IDE Water Assets, said during a panel discussion at the 2023 annual conference of the Texas Water Development Board.

After Israel declared independence in 1948, immigrants began to pour into an arid region with few natural lakes, rivers or aquifers, Teurstein said.

"Our first prime minister realized that with the growth in the country there's going to be a need for new sources of water," she said. "That's when IDE started to operate."

The company, then state-owned, built desalination plants relied on heating seawater and collecting freshwater from evaporation, a crude method by today's standards. Later, IDE pioneered membrane filtration technology. "It enabled the use of seawater for potable water at affordable prices," Teurstein said.

IDE was transferred to private ownership in the 1990s, opened its first membrane desalination plant in 2000 and began to export its technology around the world.

Ellison and Perry made official visits to Israel in 1992 and 1996 to learn about agriculture and water management. Perry became governor in 2000 in 2005 appointed Ellison director of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund.

The two visited Israel again in 2007, when Perry received the "Friend of Zion" award. After that, Perry created the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce, which gave Ellison, a board member, its Chairman's Award in 2008.

In 2013, Perry made Ellison a special advisor on economic development at the Texas Water Development Board. Later that year, state lawmakers introduced legislation to create the State Water Implementation Fund of Texas (SWIFT), a program to fund development of water infrastructure.

Texas voters approved SWIFT in November 2013, and in 2015, legislators passed a bill to streamline the granting of permits for seawater desalination facilities "in order to avoid unnecessary costs, delays, and uncertainty and thereby help justify the investment of significant resources in the development of such facilities."

That same year, IDE opened an office on Congress Avenue in Austin, two blocks from the state capital, with Ellison at its leader.

Gov. Greg Abbott took office in 2015 and visited Israel and toured an IDE facility following year.

'Not an Option'

At the time, a handful of desalination projects had been proposed along the Texas coast, and policymakers were optimistic, said Todd Votteler, a former executive manager for the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority.

"Everybody thought something was coming soon," he said.

Robert Mace, a former deputy executive administrator of the Texas Water Development Board, remembers the bullish mood.

"When I was at the board, IDE would parade through," Mace said. "An associate with IDE, who used to be an upper-level official in the Israeli government, told us what we needed to do."

Among the obstacles: Building a vast pipeline network is easier than Israel than in Texas, where it would require litigating claims of eminent domain with hundreds of thousands of landowners.

One way to avoid that cost is to build the plant next to an industrial customer. IDE built large desalination plants in India and China, both at refineries, Ellison told an audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015.

Industrial operators were starting to view water as they viewed power, as an essential resource for which they needed a readily accessible backup supply, Ellison said then.

"They cannot afford to shut down," Ellison said. "Running out of water is not an option. They need an uninterruptible supply."

Rivalry in Corpus Christi

In Corpus Christi, industrial giants including Valero, OxyChem, Citgo, Flint Hills Resources and Cheniere Energy formed a working group in November 2014 to study developing a private desalination plant.

The group concluded it would be more affordable if built by the city with low-interest public financing, specifically SWIFT loans from the state.

Corpus Christi took up the project, but it languished for years. In September 2020, the city invited 10 companies and partnerships, including IDE, to pitch proposals.

IDE proposed to partner with U.S. construction giant Kiewit to build a privately owned desalination plant that would sell water to the city. Other companies made similar proposals.

The city insisted on municipal ownership. Leaders of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority pushed for a privately owned project at Harbor Island.

City officials were outraged in 2022 to learn that the port planned to seek state funding for the project. The City Council adopted a resolution calling on the port to abandon the idea.

The port refused. It sent a delegation of state and local leaders on a trip to Israel to visit IDE facilities.

But after Strawbridge resigned as CEO of the port in 2023, its Harbor Island project stalled.

The Harbor Island Project

The city, meanwhile, moved forward with plans for a municipal desalination plant. In 2024, Corpus Christi invited developers to submit proposals. Kiewit, the construction giant that previously proposed to partner with IDE, applied on its own.

IDE requested a 45-day extension of the submission deadline to develop a proposal in partnership with Shikun & Binui, the largest commercial real estate developer in Israel. Corpus Christi denied the request.

Kiewit won the nearly $1 billion contract.

Then the Port of Corpus Christi, in September 2024, received an unsolicited offer from the Nueces River Authority to assume responsibility for the port's Harbor Island project.

The river authority' executive director, John Byrum, traveled across South and Central Texas, telling small cities and utility districts about his plan to build an enormous pipeline carrying desalinated seawater from the coast and offering an opportunity to reserve a portion of the supply, for a fee.

Byrum collected millions of dollars in reservation fees, secured a lease for Harbor Island, commissioned early engineering services and hired lobbyists in Austin.

In August 2025, Byrum presented the Corpus Christi City Council with a chance to reserve 50 million gallons per day from the Harbor Island plant for a $2.7 million deposit. The city council approved the payment and cancelled its $1 billion contract with Kiewit.

Three weeks later, the river authority hired Civitas Engineering Group to develop a request for proposals for companies to build the Harbor Island desalination plant. Would-be bidder asked for clarification on a number of points, including where funding for the initial phase of the project would come from.

The river authority said it had entered into preliminary reservation agreements with customers expected to have definitive water purchase agreements with municipalities and industrial customers as the primary source of funding. The agency is also pursuing state and federal grants.

The prospective developers also wanted to know how much the reservation holders expected to pay for desalinated water. The agency said the cost would be $10 to $15 per 1,000 gallons.

In May, the river authority selected IDE as its partner on the project.

An Insurance Policy?

The agency estimated the project's cost at $6.4 billion, more than the small authority could pay.

"Anybody that's looking at these three months should have some real concerns," board member Dan Suckley said at the authority's June 25 meeting. "Conceivably, we're out of money at the end of August."

On Aug. 28, the Texas Water Development Board held a special, nine-minute board meeting to consider a $7 million grant for the Harbor Island project.

"This is a little bit of an unusual request," board member Brady Franks said during the session. "How did it make its way to the board?"

Kevin Smith, the board's south region manager, responded. "The governor's office has directed the Texas Water Development Board's executive administrator to award funding," he said.

The state money would help the Nueces River Authority develop the pipeline system for the project, Byrum said at the meeting. IDE would finance the desalination plant with private funds, he said.

Byrum returned to the Corpus Christi City Council on Sept. 1 with an update on the project. The partners still hadn't secured full financing, Byrum said, but he was optimistic about help from the federal government.

"I believe they're going to come through," he said.

Byrum said that Corpus Christi soon would need to sign a contract committing to purchase up to 50 million gallons of water per day, the amount the city had already reserved. The contract would require Corpus Christi to pay for the water whether it needed it or not.

Byrum assured council members they would need the water. He displayed a chart showing that regional water demand would exceed supply by 200 million gallons per day by 2030.

"Those projections seem awfully high," said council member Sylvia Campos. "How can we believe you?"

"You have to believe this," Byrum said. "This is all you've got."

Two weeks later, Byrum announced his resignation from the river authority, days before its board was scheduled to discuss his possible termination at its Sept. 25 meeting.

"It hurts," Byrum said of walking away from the Harbor Island project. "It was a big part of what I was doing."

The river authority planned to finance the rest of the pipeline project by signing water contracts with its customers, according to a handout provided to board members at the meeting.

Ellison told the board that IDE hoped to select a general contractor soon, and that the company would put a final price tag on water generated by the Harbor Island plant.

The water will be more expensive than groundwater or fresh surface water, Ellison said.

"But it's the one that won't run out," he added. "Look at it as an insurance policy."

Article source: MSN