ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2017, AND THEREAFTER; MANDATORY CREDIT - In this March 23, 2017 photo, Jeffrey Benjamin, project director, walks along the southwest shore of Lake Houston near where the new intake structure will be built for the Northeast Houston Water Plant expansion in Humble, Texas. After decades of public meetings and engineering consultations, environmental-impact studies and design proposals, a solution is in the works on a massive scale: a $3 billion, three-part chain of infrastructure projects to carry water more than 40 miles westward from the Trinity River and provide a lifeline to the northern region and burgeoning suburbs from Spring to Tomball to Katy. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)