Local and state officials are designing and constructing a multi-billion expansion to the Northeast Water Purification Plant expansion, which will help provide sustainable surface water to the region for the forseeable future.
The expanded purification plant will allow local water officials to extract 400 million gallons of safe drinking water per day from Lake Houston when it is completed in six years, officials said.
Ravi Kaleyatodi, project director for the expansion, said the Harris-Galveston and Fort Bend Subsidence Districts has mandated a conversion to surface water from ground water to limit subsidence — the sinking of land that threatens homes and businesses when water is pumped from the ground.