Often-Tainted Tap Water Unaffordable to Many in Rural San Joaquin Valley
From The Fresno Bee:
“Two of every five households — nearly 4,000 customers — pay too much for tap water in a sampling of 51 small water systems across Fresno, Tulare and Kings counties, according to the study called ‘Assessing water affordability.’ …
“The Community Water Center, an advocacy group, joined California State University, Fresno and the nonprofit Pacific Institute in Oakland to produce the study, which was released last month. It included water systems in Sacramento.”