Many of those businesses rely on water for their operations, and they will not be able to operate here without these laws I'm about to sign. And to make matters even worse, compounding a problem of inadequate sources of water, We lose about 88 billion gallons of water a year because of broken, busted and aged pipes. So we have an across the board urgency to make sure that we address the water issue. So much so that in my state of the state address, I made fixing the water problem an emergency item. (06:59–07:08)
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Asserts that Texas loses 88 billion gallons of water annually due to infrastructure issues.
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