"So your [water] usage then goes from nearly 19 million gallons a day to over 33 million gallons a day," Tyler Hjorth, director of SMTX Utilities, said in a presentation this week to City Council.

Hjorth showed the Texas Water Development Board underestimated how many people would move to the region and how much water the city would need to keep up.

Paul Kite, assistant director of SMTX Utilities, said all these newcomers will strain the city’s water sources if the city does nothing… 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)

➡️ Ongoing effort to bring nonstop Asian flights to ABIA called ‘incredibly productive’ (Austin Business Journal)

Talks to bring nonstop flights between Austin and cities in Asia are “incredibly productive,” according to a consulting firm working with Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to attract and maintain new airlines and routes. But Kevin Schorr, vice president of Campbell-Hill Aviation Group, didn’t provide a specific timeline for when new flights could begin.

“You never know with air service,” he told members of the Austin Airport Advisory Commission earlier this month. “This could be three years from now, five years from now, or it could be six months from now.”

While specific cities and airlines weren’t named in his presentation, airport officials have been targeting several Asian destinations for years. A 2019 memo, later amended in 2021, named Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo as international priority routes for the airport… 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)

➡️ Hundreds of volunteers take part in Austin-Travis County’s federally required homelessness count (KXAN)

Early Sunday, hundreds of volunteers hand counted the number of people experiencing homelessness in Austin-Travis County. It’s called the Point-In-Time (PIT) count.

“I come out here because it’s an interesting outreach effort. It’s a good way to get community volunteers aware of the issue,” said Dylan Shubitz, a PIT count team leader. The biannual count is a federally mandated method of hand counting the number of people sleeping outside, put on by the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO).

It involves volunteers breaking into teams, asking people at night to unzip their tents and exit their cars, wake up off their spots on Austin’s sidewalks and answer questions passed down from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)… 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)

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