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Thomas Scott performs a hardness test on finished water in the San Marcos Plant Lab using a digital titrator. Tests are run daily on each shift.
Southwest Texas is a dry place and fast-growing place. That’s a double-edged problem that the San Marcos Water Treatment Plant is helping to solve.
The plant, in the City of San Marcos, is operated by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority through a 1997 regional agreement to...