After decades without safe drinking water, a California community will receive aid to build a pipeline
A generational issue for the families living in San Lucas continues as they’ve gone decades without drinking water. Soon federal, state, and local leaders will secure nearly a million dollars to build a pipeline to King City. Advertisement “The kids couldn’t even be bathed in the water. That’s how bad it is that babies are not able to get bathed. That means there’s something really wrong,” said Fray Marin-Zuniga, a San Lucas resident. Plants not growing, animals dying, young children unable to bathe, this is the reality for those living in the unincorporated South Monterey County town of San Lucas. “Back when I was in school here, because I graduated from San Lucas School, the water was yellow,” Martin-Zuniga said. Martin-Zuniga has lived in San Lucas his entire life, he shows KSBW the dry skin condition that he’s developed on his arm. He says as the years go by, the need for clean water has never wavered.