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El Paso, Texas, just broke ground on the first U.S. facility to turn wastewater directly into drinking water

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But El Paso Water started planning decades ago for this hotter, drier climate. El Pasos Pure Water Center, which will go online by 2028, is the first direct-to-distribution reuse facility in the country. El Paso is the first out of the gate, but Phoenix and Tucson are expected to follow suit.

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How TikTok is emerging as an essential tool for migrant smugglers

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. “In this line of work, you have to switch tactics,” said a woman named Soary, part of a smuggling network bringing migrants from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso, Texas, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition that her last name would not be shared out of concern that authorities would track her down.

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After a year of COVID-19 charts, eight data communication lessons learned

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Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dashboard. Johns Hopkins University first published their Covid dashboard on January 22, 2020. On the flipside, there were successful examples of personalized, trusted data in the Covid Tracking Project , ProPublica and El Paso School District charts. .

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After a year of COVID-19 charts, eight data communication lessons learned

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Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dashboard. Johns Hopkins University first published their Covid dashboard on January 22, 2020. On the flipside, there were successful examples of personalized, trusted data in the Covid Tracking Project , ProPublica and El Paso School District charts. .

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This toxic chemical is leaking out of nondescript warehouses across the country. Almost no one knows about it

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By January 2018, Vanessa Dominguez and her husband had been flirting with moving to a different neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, for a few years. Dominguezs boss owned a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in Ranchos del Sol, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in east El Paso, and was looking for a new tenant.

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