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In 2012, California made history when it became the first U.S. state to declare that clean drinking water is a human right. But five years later, nearly 300 communities still can’t drink their water, according to new state data—many of which are in the San Joaquin Valley. Today we debut a series about drinking water, in which we explore where these communities are and why it’s so difficult to get clean water. We begin in rural Fresno County north of Lemoore . Angel Hernandez moved to the 600-resident community of Lanare in the late 80s. He soon realized something was wrong with the water. “When you would turn on your faucet, the water would come out a yellow color and had like a sulfur [smell] and it would make you cough,” he says. Now, the discoloration has gone away, but there’s still a major problem: “You can see it’s clear and you can’t tell the arsenic is in it,” he says. Arsenic is a chemical element that occurs naturally in the ground and can leach into the water supply. In high
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