Water Quality Lab Director, Richard Wilcox, answers questions about El Paso Water.

Celebration of Our Mountains is beginning to put together a new page (or pages) of information about “healthy eating and active living” - themes of the Paso del Norte Health Foundation of El Paso, Texas. Especially during these times of COVID-19, it is important that we do everything to boost our immune systems. In particular, COM will publish a list of trails and parks that are easy for anyone to walk. The idea is to get out, get some fresh air and sunshine. (Okay - maybe not today. It’s raining again in El Paso. Unbelievable but most welcome.) There are a number of places to walk in any part of the city. Stay active. That’s one way to maintain healthy, strong immune systems.

As an aside, recently COM visited El Paso Water’s International Water Quality Laboratory. The event was quite successful and well attended for a workday event. This was at the end of February when social-distancing and self-isolation weren’t even in our vocabluary. The event is the last that we will do with El Paso Water until the current pandemic crisis is over - and it will end. Until then, they won’t do tours.

What the participants learned is that El Paso tests for all sorts of bad things in our water so those things can be removed and aren’t in our water when releasing it to us. They test for heavy metals, pesticides, hydrocarbons, germs and more.

Bottom line: El Paso water is super quality water. El Paso Water places the highest value on clean, safe water. There is no need to buy cases and cases of bottled water. The stuff coming out of your tap is great! Save some money and the earth from plastic bottle trash.