Residents of Santa Teresa, New Mexico, are once again dealing with discolored, yellow water coming from their household taps. This issue has left many frustrated and distrustful, prompting them to spend hundreds of dollars on home filtration systems to get usable water.
Causes and Concerns
The Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA), which supplies water to Sunland Park and Santa Teresa, attributes the temporary discoloration to an overnight system outage. However, for residents, this incident is part of a long history of water quality concerns and administrative fines.
Homes across the community have tried various solutions, including installing high-end water softeners, heavy metal tanks, Puronics purification systems, and UV filtration, as well as making their own distilled water at home.
Original reporting: El Paso News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
