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Listen: KUT FM explores a claim about San Antonio water consumption

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By W. Gardner Selby
January 23, 2014

Nathan Bernier of Austin’s KUT, 90.5 FM, probed our fact check of a claim that over the last 25 years, San Antonio’s population surged but water consumption did not inch up a whit.

We found that Robert Puente drew his comparison from outdated figures.

Listen by clicking the orange button to the right.

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