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The Corpus Christi City Council halted the proposed Inner Harbor desalination plant by rejecting a design contract.

While the $1.2 billion project is currently stopped, it could potentially be revived or its permits sold in the future.

Corpus Christi’s proposed Inner Harbor desalination plant — crowned with headlines and promised to set state precedent — was intended to be at least part of the answer.

But whether it was the right answer to the region’s profound drought — or the right answer, right now — will likely remain in debate for nearly as long after the project was halted as when it was started.

Consensus for years has been that the city needs more water.

What remains agreed upon, as well, is that the failure of the Inner Harbor project to clear its most

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