Water reuse project in El Paso, TX

[PJ-OSU]

This is pretty cool and will hopefully be replicated quickly in other areas that are water deficient. Once those facilities have been well established, we can hope for it to become more widely adopted as the technology becomes further acceptable in the public eye. My engineering mind geeks out on this stuff.

Texas utility launches landmark water reuse project

El Paso Water has broken ground in Texas on the Pure Water Center, the nation’s first direct-to-distribution potable reuse facility.

www.asce.org

 

[Donnyboy]

Re-use and desalination of water will be part of the future and should have been being done for decades. It's also easy and cheap.

There are semi trailers that can pulled on site plugged up with a couple of hoses and a power source and crank out ultra pure water.....I'm not talking drinking water level I'm talking cleaner than the cleanest distilled water you can get your hands at a rate of 110-225 GPM. Raw water from lakes and rivers/secondary effluent level water no problem for what I'm talking about. I don't know if they are used (never heard of it) but I wonder why they aren't like in disaster recovery......you hear like after a hurricane or something that an area doesn't have drinking water......you could literally get a semi there that can treat water around the clock and filter out anything in the contaminated water supply as fast as you could get one with pallets of bottled water and have it cranking out water around the clock. By the time you could unload the truck the water trailer could be in service and producing 1500 20oz bottles per minute. I say all that to say treating water isn't rocket science and isn't expensive.

We waste so much water in America and at a serious environmental price. Cities in the west should be doing this everywhere......they should be recycling 40-50% of their water and if they are even adjacent to the ocean using de-sal tech.

 

[KK10]

Re-use and desalination of water will be part of the future and should have been being done for decades. It's also easy and cheap.

There are semi trailers that can pulled on site plugged up with a couple of hoses and a power source and crank out ultra pure water.....I'm not talking drinking water level I'm talking cleaner than the cleanest distilled water you can get your hands at a rate of 110-225 GPM. Raw water from lakes and rivers/secondary effluent level water no problem for what I'm talking about. I don't know if they are used (never heard of it) but I wonder why they aren't like in disaster recovery......you hear like after a hurricane or something that an area doesn't have drinking water......you could literally get a semi there that can treat water around the clock and filter out anything in the contaminated water supply as fast as you could get one with pallets of bottled water and have it cranking out water around the clock. By the time you could unload the truck the water trailer could be in service and producing 1500 20oz bottles per minute. I say all that to say treating water isn't rocket science and isn't expensive.

We waste so much water in America and at a serious environmental price. Cities in the west should be doing this everywhere......they should be recycling 40-50% of their water and if they are even adjacent to the ocean using de-sal tech.

I just got to watch this exact setup in action for 3+ months.
The ones we used were also remotely operated & monitored from 200+ miles away with minimal interaction from us. Just pick up the phone if there's a problem; worst case I send a guy over and they walk him through what do to/look at over the phone and they send someone out anyway ASAP.
Ours were set up to produce up to 250 GPM, but our water would only facilitate 240 on a regular basis.

 

[CptnQuirk]

I just got to watch this exact setup in action for 3+ months.
The ones we used were also remotely operated & monitored from 200+ miles away with minimal interaction from us. Just pick up the phone if there's a problem; worst case I send a guy over and they walk him through what do to/look at over the phone and they send someone out anyway ASAP.
Ours were set up to produce up to 250 GPM, but our water would only facilitate 240 on a regular basis.

Were they AMPACbrand?

 

[Donnyboy]

Were they AMPACbrand?

The brands change faster than the trailers!!! The are Betz/GE/Ecolochem/MPW/AMPAC till they aren’t!!!!

Name on the contract changes faster than trailers get painted.

 

[KK10]

MPW

 

[xavieer333]

I hope we’ll see similar systems soon in other water-scarce areas. Once people get used to the idea and the technology becomes more familiar, it’ll be much easier to roll out. As an engineer, I’m really excited about solutions like this.