After nearly a decade of advocacy, residents of the unincorporated community of Tombstone Territory in Fresno County are now connected to a reliable water source. Families in Tombstone Territory endured years of unsafe and unreliable water supply, according to the nonprofit organization Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability. The group says residents dealt with wells going dry and with contaminated water. But residents in the area, with roughly 40 homes, recently celebrated a consolidation project that connected the community to the City of Sanger’s water system. The consolidation project cost $5 million. The effort is part of a state program known as the Safe and Affordable Funding for Equity and Resilience, or SAFER.

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