{"id":23217,"date":"2013-01-21T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=23217"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:36:17","slug":"how-one-texas-lawmaker-wants-to-fund-the-water-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/21\/how-one-texas-lawmaker-wants-to-fund-the-water-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"How One Texas Lawmaker Wants to Fund the Water Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v4Hw6Oz2Of8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With water on the minds behind the Texas legislature, Rep.\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/allan-ritter\/\" data-tooltip=\"\/directory\/allan-ritter\/quicklook\/\">Allan Ritter<\/a>, R-Nederland, the chairman of the House National Resources Committee, sat down last week to talk with the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/01\/17\/triblive-ritter-on-funding-the-water-plan\/\"> Texas Tribune<\/a> about what lawmakers can do to secure new water supplies for a growing state. Ritter recently filed a fill that would <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/10\/lawmaker-moves-forward-to-start-funding-water-plan\/\">take $2 billion from the Rainy Day Fund<\/a> to start a bank for water infrastructure projects. You can watch the conversation in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With water on the minds behind the Texas legislature, Rep.\u00a0Allan Ritter, R-Nederland, the chairman of the House National Resources Committee, sat down last week to talk with the Texas Tribune about what lawmakers can do to secure new water supplies for a growing state. Ritter recently filed a fill that would take $2 billion from [&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":[336,282,310,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217"}],"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=23217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32284,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217\/revisions\/32284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}