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Another Valley town’s well goes dry. Is the solution just a mile down the road?
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoThe town of Tooleville in Tulare County is once again without water. The town, which has struggled for years with dropping groundwater levels and contamination issues, saw its wells dry up over ...
Opinion: Clean drinking water is a human right. Why are so many California communities without it?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFive years ago, Gov. Newsom allocated $1.3 billion to fix the state's "pathetic" clean water crisis....
Dirty water, drying wells: Central Californians shoulder drought's inequities
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA gauge shows only a few pounds of pressure in the well at Jesús Benítez's home near Visalia. (Brian...
On a brutal summer day, one California town ran out of water. Then the fire came
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJuan Zetina stands outside his burned home in East Orosi, southeast of Fresno. When a small fire...
Levee breach in Monterey County triggers massive flooding, prompts evacuations, rescues
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA levee failure on the Pajaro River in Monterey County triggered massive flooding and prompted...
Valley communities in need of water face new challenge: relief is in short supply
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoGroundwater levels are dropping and domestic wells throughout the San Joaquin Valley are going dry...
Battered by destructive flooding, California braces for another atmospheric river storm
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRescuers from Orange County use rope to free Donald Stinson from quicksand near the Tule River on...
Unsafe drinking water a huge problem in rural California. State regulators are to blame
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoCalifornia officials love to proclaim how the state would be the world’s fifth-largest economy if it...
Despite storms, many Californians are still coping with dry wells and awaiting fixes
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the San Joaquin Valley, 1,800 families rely on state-funded water deliveries to fill household...
Discrimination left rural towns in San Joaquin Valley with bad water. Help is on the way
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoNearly 1 million Californians lack access to safe drinking water. This sobering statistic, tracked...