Albuquerque is launching construction on three new water projects, including two new aquifer storage sites that officials said will triple the city’s 1 billion-gallon supply, KOB 4 reports. The projects come as dry conditions on the Rio Grande limit the region’s water and leave the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority unable to replenish its aquifer storage reserves.
Aquifer storage and recovery stores water when the system can save it and pumps it back out when needed. Diane Agnew of the water authority compared the underground basin to a giant sandbox filled with water that stretches from Cochiti to Socorro, and told KOB 4 the utility is looking 10, 20 and even 100 years ahead to make sure customers and their families have water.
Across town, crews are preparing an empty lot near Bosque School for a new water reclamation facility, which Agnew said will become a large, windowless building. She said it will relieve wastewater demand on the west side, and unlike the south side reclamation plant, it will treat water to a level where it can be reused for other things.
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