Desalinating the Rio Grande Valley Groundwater

2014 Rio Grande Valley Water Awareness Summit highlights:

• Raymondville’s desalination plan is popular
  • $1.8 million TWDB grant and the agency’s $1.9 million low-interest loan to fund a $3.8 million project to drill a well and
  • install a reverse osmosis system to generate as much as 1 million gallons of water a day
• Mexico has failed to release 269,000 acre-feet into the region’s watershed causing:
  • the loss of 4,840 jobs and
  • an economic impact of $394 million a year [Valley Morning Star]