El Paso, Texas
El Paso Water. Rio Grande surface water plus groundwater. Open the current Drinking Water Report for hardness and residual. This file does not invent either.
This city’s report did not print a number we can put on the chart. Open the current water-quality report. We do not invent a value.
On the report
- Water utility
- El Paso Water
- Hardness
- Not copied from a ranking site. Open the 2025 Drinking Water Report on epwater.org. — El Paso Water Drinking Water Report page
- Disinfectant
- Open the current Drinking Water Report for chlorine vs chloramine. This file does not guess. — El Paso Water Drinking Water Report page
- Brine / salt to the sewer
- No district prohibition found in current research. No El Paso Water sewer ban like Measure S turned up. Ask the utility on the wastewater side of the bill.
Also around here
Extra context besides the utility report and the chart above — geology, an unregulated table, or a published study. Not a second set of printed tap numbers.
- MicroplasticsWHO’s 2019 review examined studies that found microplastic particles in treated tap and bottled water in many places. That is a published-occurrence finding, not a number from this city’s water-quality report, and we do not invent a particles-per-liter count for the tap.Microplastics in drinking-water — World Health Organization
- ArsenicUSGS mapped predicted arsenic in southwestern basin-fill aquifers across Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. That is a groundwater-vulnerability map, not this city’s finished-water average.Maps of estimated nitrate and arsenic concentrations for basin-fill aquifers of the southwestern United States — U.S. Geological Survey (SIM 3234)
- PFASEPA’s Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule required community systems this size to test 29 PFAS and lithium in 2023–2025. Open the UCMR 5 Data Finder for this PWS. This file does not invent a detection.Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
What actually fits
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If a dealer is selling hardness equipment
Open the current CCR for grains. This file does not invent a number from a ranking site. A salt softener needs a drain if it is legal at the address.
Shop salt-based softenersShop salt-free conditionersShop water test kits
If the water tastes like the plant’s disinfectant
Open the CCR for chlorine vs chloramine, then match that claim. A 42 chlorine listing is not chloramine.
If you are shopping a PFAS listing for the kitchen
The under-sink RO we actually run is Cloud RO — NSF/ANSI 58, kitchen tap, not a whole-house tank. Check the exact listing if PFAS is why you are shopping. Waterdrop is a tankless option if you want that path. A certifier-listed pitcher is the cheap first step. Nobody is paying for a medical claim.
Shop Cloud ROShop Waterdrop reverse osmosisShop PFAS-listed pitchers
If you have not tested the tap
A homeowner kit is a start. It is not a state-certified lab. Use a certified lab when the decision is expensive.
Sources
- Drinking Water Report — El Paso Water. Accessed 2026-08-31.
Updated August 31, 2026. A city file is chemistry we can cite plus the sewer rule. No invented detections.