Houston's Hidden Growth Bottleneck: Can Water & Power Infrastructure Keep Up?
Houston is booming — but is its infrastructure ready for what's next? In this episode of HBJ On the Record, host Sean McCrory and HBJ reporter Naomi Klinge sit down with Paula Fitzpatrick, Texas and Louisiana Region Executive at WSP, to unpack the aging systems that could throttle the region's next wave of growth.
Topics covered:
Whether Houston is truly built for the next 20 years of growth
The strain on the power grid post-Winter Storm Uri and how utilities are adapting
Houston's aging, leak-prone water infrastructure and what it will take to fix it
Lessons from Corpus Christi's…
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