El Paso Water broke ground on the first U.S. facility that will treat wastewater for direct re-use in a city water supply, using a four-step process to transform wastewater into clean, potable drinking water.

El Paso Water (EPWater), a municipal utility, has initiated construction on the Pure Water Center, previously called the Advanced Water Purification Facility, in Texas, US. The project is aimed at providing 'sustainable,

El Paso is first but Phoenix and Tucson are expected to follow. In Texas, cities from the Panhandle to the Hill Country are eyeing their own reuse facilities.