Editing El Paso, Texas (section)

===Water===
The [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]] Desalination Plant takes in brackish [[groundwater]] from an [[aquifer]] that is too salty for human consumption and treats it through [[reverse osmosis]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Frazier |first=Katie |date=2022-11-03 |title=The world's largest inland desalination plant is right here in El Paso |url=https://kvia.com/news/2022/11/03/the-worlds-largest-inland-desalination-plant-is-right-here-in-el-paso/ |access-date=2022-11-04 |work=KVIA |language=en-US}}</ref> A joint study by [[Fort Bliss]] and El Paso-area city governments found that desalination was a viable method for increasing El Paso's water supply by 25%.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.epwu.org/water/desal_info.html |title=27.5 million gallons of fresh water daily (MGD) for El Paso and Fort Bliss |access-date=July 20, 2013 |archive-date=December 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214215851/http://www.epwu.org/water/desal_info.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The plant on Fort Bliss property desalinates the groundwater of the Hueco Bolson for use by El Paso and Fort Bliss.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.epwu.org/water/hueco_bolson/1.0Introduction.pdf |title=Hueco Bolson groundwater model |access-date=November 4, 2022 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016115529/http://www.epwu.org/water/hueco_bolson/1.0Introduction.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>