Santa Teresa, New Mexico (KVIA) — Discolored, yellow water is once again pouring from household taps in Santa Teresa, leaving residents frustrated, distrustful, and forced to spend hundreds on home filtration systems just to get usable water.
Residents have exhausted all options from installing Puronics water purification systems, water softener systems, heavy metal tanks, additional carbon filters, UV filtration, to even making their own water.
The Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA), which supplies water to Sunland Park and Santa Teresa—tells ABC-7 that an overnight system outage may have caused the temporary discoloration. However, for residents, this latest incident follows a long history of water quality concerns and administrative fines…