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This is the third installment in our series Contaminated, in which we explore the 300 California communities that lack access to clean drinking water. When we began the series , we introduced you to the community of Lanare, which has arsenic-tainted water while a treatment plant in the center of town sits idle. Today, we return to Lanare to learn why infrastructure projects aren’t always enough, and how Sacramento is trying to ensure Lanare never happens again. Water problems have plagued the Fresno County community of Lanare for so long, it may feel like there’s nothing left to do but joke about them. Like when we met with a group of Lanare residents earlier this spring—and they offered a glass of water. Isabel Solorio is the president of the group Community United in Lanare. She advocates for basic services here and she’s fought to get clean water for decades. She remembers when the treatment center was built in 2007. “When they built it for us, it was an exciting occasion and it was
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