Water Filtration Project Aims to Ease Shortages
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Water Filtration Project Funded byU.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A university research project is aimed at helping some border residents in Texas and New Mexico get clean drinking water through filtration systems made out of supplies found at many hardware stores.
Led by a group of students and professors at the University of Texas at El Paso and New Mexico State University, the project builds filtering systems that can be made with supplies that cost anywhere from less than $50 and up to $300 with minimal monthly upkeep, the El Paso Times reported Sunday .
The goal is to help people living in border communities known as "colonias," where residents often lack water service and pay to truck in water for washing and bathing. That water is typically not suitable for drinking and families spend even more to buy bottled water.
The project is funded with a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The research team expects to install the filtration systems at 10 homes by September in El Paso and New Mexico and will monitor the cleanliness of the water for six months.
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