Here’s how El Paso's water desalination worksEl Paso Water since 2007 has operated the largest inland water desalination plant in the world, w...
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El Paso Water since 2007 has operated the largest inland water desalination plant in the world, which supplies around 5% of the roughly 40 billion gallons of water that El Pasoans use annually.
However, the utility is planning to boost average household water bills by $3.54 per month starting next year, and it plans to use some of that extra cash from customers to fund a big expansion at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant. The project would boost production capacity up to 33 million gallons of potable water per day from 27.5 million gallons today.
Amid an ongoing drought in the El Paso region that forecasters say will persist for the foreseeable future, the desalination plant’s expansion is part of El Paso Water’s big-picture goal to create a larger “drought-proof” supply of water. El Paso’s usual water sources include two underground aquifers on either side of the Franklin Mountains, and water that originates in the mountains of southern Colorado and flows into the Rio Grande in El Paso.
But the utility can’t overpump the aquifers, and river flows can change year to year.
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