{"id":22654,"date":"2013-01-03T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=22654"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:42:09","slug":"in-dry-west-texas-hoping-the-lege-will-act-to-fund-water-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/03\/in-dry-west-texas-hoping-the-lege-will-act-to-fund-water-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"In Dry West Texas, Hoping the Lege Will Act to Fund Water Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bRgLi12ewJg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Texas state legislature meets next week for another session, and there&#8217;s a sense that this time around, serious measures will be taken to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/10\/31\/will-texas-lawmakers-fund-the-state-water-plan\/\">fund water projects.<\/a> Texas is, after all, an ever-growing state in the midst of an extended dry spell.<\/p>\n<p>Hopes that the lege will act to fund water projects are high in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/library\/multimedia\/state-of-mind\/\">West Texas towns like Spur<\/a>, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/\">Texas Tribune<\/a> reporters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/about\/staff\/rocha-alana\/\">Alana Rocha<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/about\/staff\/justin-dehn\/\">Justin Dehn<\/a> visited recently. But even if lawmakers do act, some in Spur aren&#8217;t convinced it will be enough to make a real difference for small Texas towns like theirs. You can watch their video report 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>The Texas state legislature meets next week for another session, and there&#8217;s a sense that this time around, serious measures will be taken to fund water projects. Texas is, after all, an ever-growing state in the midst of an extended dry spell. Hopes that the lege will act to fund water projects are high in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,336,243,282,310,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22654"}],"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=22654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22662,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22654\/revisions\/22662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}