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Prop 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2025\/06\/18\/texas-water-shortages-drought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">once passed by Texas voters<\/a> in November, will provide dedicated funding of $1 billion annually for the next 20 years, which would be invested in water infrastructure and supply projects, such as upgrading deteriorating water and wastewater systems, reducing flood risk, safeguarding natural resources, and keeping water bills low.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><em>Photo Credit: Suzanne King<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NWF worked with partners to support the passage of a historic investment in water infrastructure (HJR7\/SB7). Prop 4, once passed by Texas voters in November, will provide dedicated funding of $1 billion annually for the next 20 years, which would be invested in water infrastructure and supply projects, such as upgrading deteriorating water and wastewater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":181,"template":"","meta":{"featured_image_background_position":"","location":"Austin, TX","address-full":"823 Congress Ave Ste 150\nAustin, TX 78701","lat":30.27059,"lng":-97.741452,"footnotes":""},"topic":[4],"pillar":[7],"class_list":["post-180","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-state-stories","pillar-environmental-justice-and-resilient-communities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Historic Water Infrastructure Investment for Texas - 2025 Impact Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/impact.nwf.org\/2025\/stories\/historic-water-infrastructure-investment-for-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Historic Water Infrastructure Investment for Texas - 2025 Impact Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NWF worked with partners to support the passage of a historic investment in water infrastructure (HJR7\/SB7). 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