MARLIN, Texas — Since 2019, the City of Marlin has received around $13 million in state funding, including $6.3 million for water system improvements. Yet, with the city’s second State of Emergency in just two months, residents are demanding answers as their daily lives grind to a halt.
“You can’t do dishes, you can’t shower, you can’t wash clothes,” Dustin Tucker, a Marlin resident, told 6 News, illustrating the grim reality. Restaurants are shutting down because they have no water. It’s literally affecting people’s livelihoods now.”
The crisis escalated on Jan. 21 when Mayor Susan Byrd issued the Declaration of Disaster. In it, Byrd warned of an “imminent threat of additional damages” stemming from the city’s current water distribution system…