On the Texas Border, Building Infrastructure Is Hard. Critics Say It's About to Get Harder.
Governing | August 24, 2017
For half a million people in the border regions of Texas, getting basic infrastructure -- the kind that most Americans take for granted has taken decades. These residents have to cope with problems like streets overflowing with sewage from sand-filled septic tanks, high levels of toxic arsenic in their drinking water or roads that flood during the summer monsoons.