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More than 300 California communities lack access to clean drinking water. A disproportionately high number of those communities lie in the San Joaquin Valley, as we reported in our 2017 series Contaminated . Last fall, a bill with a proposed solution passed the state senate but has since remained in limbo, receiving both broad support and opposition—even in the San Joaquin Valley. Last Wednesday, over a hundred Valley residents traveled to Sacramento carrying bottles of water. Bottles that were contaminated with bacteria and chemicals—just like the water that comes out of their taps. “If you don’t believe us, come and join us, and drink our water,” said Lilia Garcia, a resident of Porterville, whose water is contaminated with uranium and nitrate. “We need a long-term solution, not a Band-Aid,” said Isabel Solorio, who lives in Lanare— a community that’s been trying to rid its drinking water of arsenic for over a decade . Garcia, Solorio, and dozens of residents of communities like
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