Mitchell Hartman

Sort of a dark joke that you hear around town all the time.

We're praying to get head on direct hit by a hurricane.

So we're bringing in raw saltwater.

We basically send it through really, really large sand filters, same thing you would see on your pool.

The water is our top priority because if the water is not right, the animals living in it can't be healthy.

We've developed some clever ways to completely take the splash park off of the potable water systems.

I think about it every day.

It sounds like we don't have water and you can't come and enjoy a vacation in Corpus Christi.

That's not true.

So every day through this ship channel moves about $340 million worth of goods.

Majority of it is export.

We don't want anyone to have to shut down.

We don't want curtailment.

We don't want it for our industry.

We don't want it for our residents.

We have had a couple that were very favorable to coming here in past years who ended up making a decision not to because of the dwindling water supplies.

Frequently, things are portrayed as industry uses too much water.

I think that misses the point, the larger point, that it's a combination of long-term drought along with 100% dependence on surface water.

I mean, you're talking about probably hundreds of folks that don't have a job.

Back in the innocent days of early 2023, when I first connected with New Orleans sports fanatic Jonathan Barnes, he subscribed to streaming services with abandon, usually seven or eight at a time.