{"id":23485,"date":"2013-01-24T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=23485"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:35:12","slug":"dewhurst-on-funding-water-plan-theres-no-other-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/24\/dewhurst-on-funding-water-plan-theres-no-other-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Dewhurst on Funding Water Plan: &#8216;There&#8217;s No Other Option&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wMQt4CsTLJw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/\">Texas Tribune<\/a> event this morning in Austin, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst talked with <em>Tribune<\/em> Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith about a whole host of issues facing the state, such as public education. And of course, they also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/01\/24\/triblive-dewhurst-on-the-water-plan\/\">talked about water<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, State Senator Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay) announced his support of a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/24\/if-texas-water-plan-is-funded-where-will-the-money-go\/\">plan to take $2 billion<\/a> from the state&#8217;s Rainy Day Fund to start funding water projects. That&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/11\/29\/texas-lt-gov-wants-to-use-rainy-day-fund-for-water-projects\/\">whole billion more t<\/a>han Dewhurst had proposed in November. Asked today which number he believes is right, Dewhurst said they&#8217;re looking into it, but what matters most is that new water projects get the funding they need. &#8220;There&#8217;s no other option,&#8221; Dewhurst said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to provide the funds necessary.&#8221; Dewhurst also advocated for <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p1ODOS-66p\">prioritizing which projects<\/a> get funding first.<\/p>\n<p>But, Smith asked, does Dewhurst have the votes to get the conservative Senate to withdraw money from the Rainy Day Fund? You can hear Dewhurst&#8217;s answer in the video above. And be sure to join StateImpact Texas in Austin Monday for a special panel, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/23\/join-us-monday-for-the-texas-water-crisis-finding-and-funding-a-solution\/\">The Texas Water Crisis: Finding and Funding a Solution<\/a>.\u2019 You\u2019ll have the opportunity to hear from lawmakers firsthand and ask your own questions. We\u2019ll have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lylelarson.org\/\">State Rep. Lyle Larson<\/a>\u00a0and others on hand to discuss the issues. We&#8217;ll be at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cactuscafe.org\/\">Cactus Cafe<\/a>\u00a0at UT Austin Monday, January 28th. Doors open at 5:30 pm and the event begins at 6 pm. You can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/339684709477601\/?ref=22\">RSVP on Facebook here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Texas Tribune event this morning in Austin, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst talked with Tribune Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith about a whole host of issues facing the state, such as public education. And of course, they also talked about water. On Wednesday, State Senator Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay) announced his support of a plan to [&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":[61,336,286,243,282,310,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23485"}],"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=23485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32283,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23485\/revisions\/32283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}