This article is co-published with KRIS 6 News and ProPublica as part of an initiative to report on state and federal efforts to restrict local control. The Corpus Christi region, in the midst of an ongoing water crisis, has experienced another setback: Design work has halted on a pipeline that’s supposed to deliver water to communities across the state because the tiny river authority that promised to develop the project hasn’t offered a renewed contract, KRIS-6 has learned.