Opinion: Valley residents key concern is having safe drinking water
Growing up in Dinuba, my family and I worried about whether the water coming out of our tap was safe to drink. We knew that our groundwater was likely contaminated by nitrates and other toxic chemicals from agriculture. Like many other immigrant families, we would fill up three 5-gallon containers of water at a vending machine station on a weekly basis. To this day, we still don’t trust that the water in our home is safe to drink.
-Written by Emmanuel Agraz Torres, an ambassador with California Environmental Voters Education Fund and a student at California State University, Fresno.