This Billionaire Couple Stole California's Water Supply

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6. For those not aware, Musk is attempting to take over a huge portion of the water supply in South Texas

An area which is already in a drought.

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/musks-massive-tesla-lithium-plant-hunts-for-water-in-drought-hit-texas-2025-01-08

Musk’s massive Tesla lithium plant hunts for water in drought-hit Texas

In 2022, Tesla estimated it would need 400,000 gallons per day to run the lithium plant, rising to 800 000 gallons per day at peak usage. Two years later, a Tesla employee told a consulting firm, Raftelis, that the forecast has spiked to as high as eight-million gallons per day, according to South Texas Water Authority records obtained by Bloomberg News through a public records request.

It’s difficult to determine what kind of drain Tesla’s factory would have on the area’s water supply. But the average American family uses about 300 gallons of water per day or 109 500 gallons per year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

For Robstown, which had 3 804 households as of 2023, that would equate to about 1.1-million gallons a day. At the high-end estimate of 8 million gallons per day, Tesla would be using eight times Robstown’s average residential water use. That’s enough water to fill eight ten-foot-deep swimming pools that are nearly the size of a football field, according to the US Geological Survey.

In December, South Texas Water Authority passed an infrastructure deal that will allow Nueces Water Supply to sell rights to the pipe Tesla will need to obtain water, which was one of the hold-ups for a water deal. In a meeting last month, Nueces Water Supply’s board authorized management to “take any and all actions necessary or convenient” to reach an agreement to provide Tesla with the water it needs.

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