Greg Abbott: “Over the last couple of years, the city of Houston was…”

“… provide half of that, which is $10 billion, to go towards fixing broken and leaking water pipes. Let me just give you one example about where we are right now. Over the last couple of years, the city of Houston was losing more than 30 billion gallons of water because of leaking and broken water pipes. We now have funding to assist Houston in being able to repair and rebuild those water pipes, which alone, if we're saving 30 billion gallons of water, it's almost like a new source of water unto itself.” (17:10–17:21)

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