Greg Abbott: “Half of that money goes to actually increasing our water…”

“Then Senate Bill 7 by Senator Perry kind of gets into a lot of the details about how that money is to be used and how it's all to operate. And to oversimplify, provides that Half of that money goes to actually increasing our water supply, looking for new sources of water. Think about this context, East Texas, they're going to have plenty of rainfall and water. They don't have a lack of water problem. They have a flooding problem over there.” (08:35–08:43)

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