Texas Water Development board unveils $50 billion flood plan

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It has over four thousand projects, all at the low
low cost of fifty billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Ultimately comes down to is it the appropriate role of government.
I think arguably you could say yes, right, protecting infrastructure,
trying to plan for certain things that costs an immense
amount of money.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Jeremy Kitchen with Texas Policy Research says the projects will
be up to the state legislature. Half of it would
be used in Galveston, but that doesn't really help the
whole state. So it's a tough sell.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
You're asking state taxpayers to fund something which admittedly is
extremely expensive.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
He says, even if they fund these, it'll still take
a long time to get anything done. Andre Parard News
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