Public Health Crisis Looms as California Identifies 600 Communities at Risk of Water-System Failures
Public Health Crisis Looms as California Identifies 600 Communities at Risk of Water-System Failures A new report puts into focus for the first time the scope of the state’s drinking-water problems and what it will take to fix them. A familiar scene has returned to California: drought. Two counties are currently under emergency declarations, and the rest of the state could follow. It was only four years ago when a winter of torrential rain finally wrestled the state out of its last major drought, which had dragged on for five years and left thousands of domestic wells coughing up dust.