Detention in the Desert: Fort Bliss’s Water Crisis Waiting to Happen

ICE’s new El Paso facility adds thousands to a city already on water rations.

El Paso has spent decades learning how to survive on less water. The city cut daily use by nearly half over a generation, turned sewage into drinking water before most Americans had even heard the phrase “toilet-to-tap,” and built the largest inland desalination plant in the world to stretch every drop.

Now, in the middle of August — the hottest month of…