BELL COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) - Today marks the start of early voting and this year in Texas there are a total of 17 state propositions voters will have to decide on.

One of those is Proposition 4, which if passed would provide $20 billion dollars for water projects over the next two decades.

Something Ricky Garrett, the Manager of the Water Control Improvement District #1, says is needed in Central Texas and across the state.

“We’re in desperate times really as a water supply industry,” Garrett explained, adding that they alone serve 300,000 people every day… and that’s just in Bell County.

“We bring water in from lake Belton and lake Stillhouse, we treat it to be potable, and then we send that off to our customers,” Garret shared.

That infrastructure is key to the quality of the water a

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