If everything works as expected with the Advanced Water Purification Pilot Facility in El Paso, Texas, residents will soon be drinking cleaned wastewater. The $5 million test facility opened in August and will operate for about three months to ensure the technology works properly before El Paso Water Utilities begins planning a full-scale facility. The result of ongoing testing during the pilot phase will be sent to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which will have to approve the full-scale facility.Gilbert Trejo, chief technical officer for El Paso Water Utilities, says the pilot plant at the Roberto Bustamante Wastewater Treatment Plant
Drink It Up! El Paso Welcomes Direct Reuse Pilot Project
In a desert city, people understand the importance of water security. Learn how a pilot project at El Paso Water Utilities is using direct reuse to increase its drinking water supply.
Sep 29, 2015 | by Doug Day |
