KPIX CBS Weekend News June 4, 2024 00:52:00
Roll in for 90 days straight. more than a million tons of tomatoes from california fields. usually, they're turned into products like tomato paste for use in ketchup and sauces. but at this facility in merced county they're tapping into something else hidden inside, fresh drinking water. inside these pipes tomato juice is being transformed into tomato paste. the leftover liquid is sent on to this shipping container where the water-making magic unfolds. >> this is the w.h.u., or the water harvesting unit, because that's really what we're doing, is harvesting the water from the raw tomato. >> re...