New funding promises clean water for drought-stricken Tooleville
New funding from the California Department of Water Resources promises to help a struggling Tulare County town clean up its water and turn on its taps. Tooleville, a rural community of about 200 people at the base of the Sierra Nevada, has only intermittently had water since its second well recently failed – the latest victim of California’s intensifying megadrought. … Even when the well produces water, it’s often contaminated with unsafe levels of nitrates, a byproduct of nearby agriculture cultivation that can reduce oxygen levels in the blood.
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