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Senior Technician Vincent Ruiz (left) and Assistant Superintendent Ricardo Ruiz in the control room at the Jonathan Rogers Water Treatment Plant in El Paso, Texas. (Photography by Brian Kanof)
Many cities enjoy easy access to abundant drinking water from rivers, lakes, underground aquifers and the like.
El Paso, Texas, is not one of them.
But over the years, El Paso Water — the city’s water and sewer utility — has successfully developed strategies for managing...