Flushing the toilet, taking a shower or using the sink generates wastewater, a process that usually goes forgotten, unless storage and treatment fails — then sewage is often too noticeable. Several major pipe ruptures mean ...
More than 150 million gallons of sewage from El Paso’s West Side is flowing into the Rio Grande. The wastewater, which includes waste from toilets, showers and sink drains, is untreated. While that amount only ...
Both the Rio Grande and Colorado rivers shrunk in 2021, another bad water year in a two-decade megadrought brought on by a warming Western United States. Demands on the rivers — from growing cities, agriculture, ...
Update 12:50 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27: Special Master Michael Melloy ruled Friday to split in half the trial for the long-running U.S. Supreme Court case over Rio Grande water between Texas and New Mexico. Melloy ...
The fight on Newman 6 is over. El Paso Electric and the coalition of community and environmental groups opposing the construction of the new methane power plant unit in Northeast El Paso announced an agreement ...
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Aug. 9 released a report on the impacts of climate change and how human activity is contributing to “unprecedented” and rapid change to the Earth’s climate. ...
The Southwestern United States is on the frontlines of climate change and the decades-long effects on the El Paso area will likely worsen, local and regional experts said, unless international governments curb fossil fuel emissions. ...
Whatever the weather, John Fausett sings. The longtime meteorologist has composed songs about heat waves, blizzards, storm spotters and “one team working together” at the El Paso National Weather Service forecast office in Santa Teresa. ...
Decades-long efforts to protect Castner Range, a portion of the Franklin Mountains, have been hampered by danger from the old Army unexploded ordnance in the Chihuahuan Desert. However, conservation groups and U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, ...
Sunny skies returned to El Paso this week after Sunday’s monsoon storm that left parts of the city’s East Side submerged in floodwater. But water safety experts and city officials cautioned that still waters still ...
Until recently, the Figure 2 Ranch was best known as the site of the last Native American battle against the Texas Rangers. Mescalero Apaches fought under the banner of their recently deceased leader Victorio in ...
With an uncertain monsoon season ahead, weather experts warn another round of wet weather in El Paso could mean additional flooding in the Sun City through the rest of the summer. Meteorologist Anthony Brown with ...
By Alan G. Parsons As information regarding the proposed site for the new combined training facility for the fire and police department has become available to the public, I have some strong opinions and ideas ...
ANAPRA, MEXICO — Elena Moreno has lived in this impoverished neighborhood in Ciudad Juárez for nearly 30 years. She’s raised six children, seen politicians come and go and survived waves of violence. But one thing ...
ANAPRA, Mexico — The days-long blackouts are costly for the families in Pastor Ismael Martinez’s care as they result in spoiled food, ruined appliances and water shortages. Martinez operates Pan de Vida, a migrant shelter ...
El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego has approved the sale and use of most fireworks in the unincorporated areas of the county after the recent rainfall in Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico. This is ...
The record rainfall this week in El Paso broke several weeks of triple-digit high temperatures, and doubled the area’s total in 24 hours, causing localized flash flooding in Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico. ...
When Bishop Mark Seitz visited the Fort Bliss tent facility for unaccompanied migrant children Sunday, he was only able to conduct one mass instead of the scheduled two because of record-setting rain that has drenched ...
Fireworks and festivities of Fourth of July are around the corner, but dry and hot conditions make the El Paso area a potential tinderbox. Personal fireworks are banned within El Paso city limits, but are ...
As El Paso experiences a long-term heat wave with temperatures climbing above 100 degrees during an extreme drought, concerns increase about whether West Texas and parts of New Mexico could be without power at times. ...
TORNILLO, Texas — Shannon Ivey grew up alongside the pecan orchards on his family’s farm. Now 41, the fourth-generation pecan farmer recently walked under the shade of the nearly 50 year-old trees planted in the ...
El Paso’s June is heating up and the triple-digit heat wave expected to last through next week could pose a health threat to some of the city’s most vulnerable. To help counter the risks, the ...
The Newman 6 project will have its day in court. An administrative law judge ruled Thursday that the Sierra Club and a citizen group from Chaparral, N.M., can move forward to challenge the state of ...
El Paso’s temperature will top 100 degrees for the first time this year in the coming days, a mark that will likely be topped repeatedly over the next three months. Although El Pasoans have come ...
The Rio Grande will be running in El Paso soon, as water was released Memorial Day from the Caballo Dam. The continued drought means a shorter irrigation season as less water made its way downstream ...
For now, the Rio Grande outside El Paso is a bare sandbed stretching miles, but in a couple days there’ll be water running in it again, albeit later than usual. For the people, wildlife and ...
The Environmental Protection Agency said this week it will “correct” the passing designation for El Paso’s air quality due to the impact the city has on air pollution levels in Doña Ana County. The EPA ...
El Paso’s taxpayers, city officials and government watchdogs agree — the city’s recycling program is far from perfect. Contaminated materials, mixed messaging on how to recycle, and rogue collection crews that “cut corners” have cost ...
By Claudia Silva, New Mexico In Depth When Ida Garcia looks out the kitchen window during cool mornings, plumes billowing from a power plant less than a mile away in Texas obscure her view of the ...
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By Jack Loveridge Central El Paso’s Manhattan Heights and Military Heights neighborhoods feature some of the city’s top architectural treasures, but ineffective storm drainage and deadly street flooding are elements of our history that aren’t ...