Corpus Christi just voted 8-0 to explore desalination at Barney Davis. After years of watching Harbor Island go nowhere, this one actually feels different.

The site has the infrastructure. The brine goes to the Gulf. And if the numbers pan out — this coast doesn't just solve its water problem. It exports water north.

We're watching. And for once, we're feeling good about it.

 

When we dropped the Desal and Disorder VLOG, the response was immediate —
messages from fishermen, teachers, refinery workers, and even a few city employees.
Everyone wanted to know one thing:
What’s really happening behind the curtain?

So, let’s dig deeper.
This isn’t about finger-pointing — it’s about truth.
And around here, truth’s been buried under more red tape and PR money than a fish kill in July.

When the Sparkling City by the Sea starts running out of water, things get complicated fast.
Between billion-dollar desal dreams, corporate pressure, and locals being told to “cut back,” it’s starting to feel like common sense got left at the dock.

In this first episode of the Reel VLOG, Andrew Foster — founder of Reel Sportswear — breaks down what’s really happening in Corpus Christi’s water fight.
It’s not about politics. It’s about community, fairness, and calling things what they are.

They call it water security.
We call it Desal and Disorder.

The Port of Corpus Christi is already in the midst of work to deepen and widen the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, a massive $327 million undertaking being done in conjunction with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

No matter the species an angler pursues, the basic building blocks for success are the same; you must figure out where they are and what they are eating. From white trout on Pensacola beaches to Tarpon in Florida Bay to tuna off the Louisiana Coast, finding the fish is the first step. Sit in a roomful of fishermen, and you’ll hear talk about grass, cover, structure, depth and current because those are often the keys to finding fish.

Gradually, over the last three decades, populations have been in decline and the abundance of flounder across their entire geographic range are at near-record lows. Fishery managers from Texas to North Carolina are grappling with difficult management decisions as previous actions taken by the states have only manufactured temporary results.