Water utilities in the arid Southwestern United States are starved for water supplies and increasingly look to indirect and direct potable reuse as part of the answer to meeting demand.
El Paso Water is helping lead the way in potable reuse, breaking ground in late February for the 10 mgd Pure Water Center, which it calls the nation’s first direct-to-distribution water reuse facility. For more than a decade the utility has worked with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to make sure the facility produces water that meets all state and federal requirements.Utility president and CEO John Balliew observes, “This is
