Water supply technology innovator, Enviro Water Minerals (EWM), recently completed its first water desalination plant in El Paso, Texas.  This is the first Full Recovery DesalinationSM  plant in the world. The project was done in collaboration with El Paso Water (EPW), the municipal water provider for El Paso.  The new facility is unique in addressing multiple challenges faced by water providers with expanding needs or challenging circumstances such as high salinity waters, financial constraints, or limited disposal options.

EWM has a revolutionary technology process that treats waters containing high levels of total dissolved solids ("TDS"), resulting in potable water and chemical constituents to be sold in the marketplace. EWM's Full Recovery DesalinationSM recovers approximately 99% of the water processed as drinking water and can capture all contaminants as beneficial-use products - a true zero-discharge solution. Furthermore, the process is often much more economical than alternatives as there are no disposal costs and the chemicals that are generated and sold offset some of the process costs. 

 

The Water Environment & Reuse Foundation (WE&RF), a subscriber-based nonprofit (501c3) organization, manages a desalination research program to further the knowledge and understanding of desalination in regards to treatment strategies, regulatory concerns, cost implications, concentrate management, and environmental effects.  WE&RF, which was formed in July 2016 as the result of the merger of Water Environment Research Foundation and the WateReuse Research Foundation, conducts research to treat and recover beneficial materials from wastewater, stormwater, and seawater.