More than 100,000 El Paso residents left with little to no water after main break

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• Gilbert Trejo, an official with El Paso Water, called it “an event of unprecedented proportion”.
• He said the break was made even more impactful because of “the way the pipeline itself was designed along with how different connections of smaller lines were made to it”. A boil water notice was issued, and water distribution centers were set up, officials said. Classes were canceled on Monday at more than a dozen schools in the El Paso Independent School District due to the outage.
• Other schools in the area remained open but were under the boil water notice. Trejo said that about 38,000 customer connections were put out of service because of the break, which translates to more than 100,000 residents affected.
• He said that more than 15 water reservoirs “essentially drained out”. He said there was not enough information yet to determine what caused the break. Trejo asked for patience as they make repairs and go through the process to get the water flowing again. Explore more on these topicsTexasEl PasoWaternewsShareReuse this content.