{"id":20890,"date":"2012-11-08T12:10:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=20890"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:42:28","slug":"what-can-the-texas-lege-do-about-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/11\/08\/what-can-the-texas-lege-do-about-water\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can the Texas Lege Do About Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/STDUlQ1gTpA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What can the upcoming Texas legislature do about water, where will it <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/10\/31\/will-texas-lawmakers-fund-the-state-water-plan\/\">find the funds<\/a> if it decides to act? Those were some of the hot-button questions on tap at a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/texas-news-media\/triblive\/tribunefest-a-conversation-with-ritter-and-hegar\/\">Texas Tribune summit on water issues<\/a> at Texas State\u00a0University.<\/p>\n<p>Tribune Editor-In-Chief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/about\/staff\/evan-smith\/\">Evan Smith<\/a> sat down with\u00a0two state legislators, Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/allan-ritter\/\" data-tooltip=\"\/directory\/allan-ritter\/quicklook\/\">Allan Ritter<\/a>\u00a0(R-Nederland), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, and state Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/glenn-hegar\/\" data-tooltip=\"\/directory\/glenn-hegar\/quicklook\/\">Glenn Hegar<\/a>\u00a0(R-Katy), who sites on the Senate Natural Resources Committee. You can watch their conversation above.<\/p>\n<h4>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/10\/31\/will-texas-lawmakers-fund-the-state-water-plan\/\">Will Texas Lawmakers Fund the State Water Plan? \u00a0<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can the upcoming Texas legislature do about water, where will it find the funds if it decides to act? Those were some of the hot-button questions on tap at a recent Texas Tribune summit on water issues at Texas State\u00a0University. Tribune Editor-In-Chief Evan Smith sat down with\u00a0two state legislators, Rep.\u00a0Allan Ritter\u00a0(R-Nederland), chairman of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[61,336,282,310,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20915,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20890\/revisions\/20915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}