The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply. Even as Abbott was demanding that Corpus Christi get its act together, another agency, whose entire board Abbott appoints, was also coming undone. With a majority vote of the river authority board, Abbott also can remove any board member for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct. … The Corpus Christi City Council created this crisis through repeated failure to act on desalination,” Mahaleris wrote. Would a state takeover of Corpus Christi water regulators, even if it could be done, actually make a difference?