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telegraphherald.com
April 20, 2018
Arizona has been confronting drought throughout the 21st century. Two small communities, East Porterville in California and Spicewood Beach in Texas, drew national attention during their states' droughts after their wells ran dry and outsiders came to the rescue with water deliveries. As many as 30 otherÃâà...
Agriculture.com
April 18, 2018
plunged lake levels, killed millions of trees, and cost billions of dollars in lost crops and livestock. Georgia went through four droughts from 1998 to 2016. Arizona has been confronting drought throughout the 21st century. Two small communities, East Porterville in California and. Spicewood Beach in Texas,Ãâà...
The Pew Charitable Trusts (blog)
April 17, 2018
Arizona has been confronting drought throughout the 21st century. Two small communities, East Porterville in California and Spicewood Beach in Texas, drew national attention during their states' droughts after their wells ran dry and outsiders came to the rescue with water deliveries. As many as 30 otherÃâà...
News Deeply
April 9, 2018
During the height of California's drought, hundreds of residential wells went dry in the tiny community of East Porterville, putting it in the national spotlight. But a lack of water is not the only problem faced by small communities like East Porterville in California's San Joaquin Valley – many also suffer fromÃâà...
News Deeply
April 6, 2018
A new report from the Center for Regional Change at the University of California, Davis, examines the most vulnerable communities in the valley – those known as disadvantaged unincorporated communities (DUCs). These low-income communities are outside city boundaries and often lack basic services.
HuffPost Canada
March 16, 2018
Bloomberg via Getty Images A sign in the window of a restaurant in Cambria, California, on April 12, 2015. Water shortages often lead to civil unrest. A 2016 drought in southern India led to violent riots between residents of two states over the right to use shared water resources. We'd like to think CanadiansÃâà...
HuffPost Canada
March 15, 2018
When Zero Day arrives in Cape Town, residents will have to queue at city-run distribution points to get their ration of trucked-in water. Your daily schedule will revolve around quenching thirst. You'll have to tighten your pocketbook. Many Californians have seen water bills double in their multi-year drought.
The Cheat Sheet
March 7, 2018
Hundreds of wells ran dry in East Porterville, near Bakersfield, California, in 2014. Trucks bussed bottled water to residents forcing ... Also, the city continues to lose about 80% of its water to the Santa Monica Bay while under a drought caused by recent wildfires. And L.A. imports an even bigger portion of itsÃâà...
Sierra Sun Times
March 2, 2018
OO/ Mariposa CA-Madera CA-Tulare CA-Fresno CA- 1142 PM PST THU MAR 1 2018 The National Weather Service in Hanford CA has issued a * Flood Advisory for... Central Mariposa County in central California... Central Madera County in central California... Central Tulare County in central California.
Visalia Times-Delta
February 27, 2018
"We are regularly reviewed by the [California Department of Water Resources]. We don't anticipate changes to the water quality." Sanchez, who has ... East Porterville became the national epicenter of the devastation caused by fives years of drought. In October 2017, there were 1,600 domestic well failuresÃâà...
Curbed
February 16, 2018
Pay attention to the U.S. Drought Monitor and a troubling picture emerges: After record-breaking droughts in 2013, 2014, and 2015 in California and much of the West, that same area is abnormally dry. Parts of California are once again experiencing drought, while two-thirds of Arizona and three-fourths ofÃâà...
Futurity: Research News
February 11, 2018
While no major California cities ran out of water during the recent drought, some smaller, rural towns that were reliant solely on groundwater did. ... East Porterville did not regain water until late 2016 when the neighboring town of Porterville extended its water supply system to those otherwise left high andÃâà...
Valley Public Radio
February 8, 2018
The State Department of Water Resources made the announcement today, bringing an end to a saga that gained national attention during California's most recent drought. Hundreds of homes in the unincorporated area east of the City of Porterville had their private wells go dry during the drought.
Porterville Recorder
February 8, 2018
Hundreds of residential wells in the small, unincorporated community of East Porterville in Tulare County became dry or contaminated during California's recent five-year drought. Homes without access to safe potable water received deliveries of tanked water and bottled water. At a monthly price tag ofÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 6, 2018
In Devin Nunes' hometown of Tulare, Calif., the conversation has more to do with water than memos about the Russia investigation. (Jazmine Ulloa / Los ... The congressman's efforts led to the building of a communal shower, he said, and water supplies were trucked into East Porterville during the drought.
Stanford University News
February 6, 2018
While no major California cities ran out of water during the recent drought, some smaller, rural towns that were reliant solely on groundwater did. ... For example, the wells in East Porterville, a small town near Bakersfield, went dry in 2014, forcing the state to truck bottled water to city residents and forcingÃâà...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
February 3, 2018
PHILLIPS STATION, Calif. — California's brief escape from severe drought has ended after scientists declared more than 40 percent of the state in moderate drought and water officials confirmed lower-than-normal snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, whichÃâà...
CBS Sacramento
February 1, 2018
PHILLIPS STATION, Calif. (AP) – California's brief escape from severe drought ended Thursday after scientists declared more than 40 percent of the state in drought and water officials confirmed lower-than-normal snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. During a week of rainless skies and some record-highÃâà...
KABC-TV
February 1, 2018
California is rapidly plunging back into drought, with severe conditions now existing in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties - home to ... government officials had to install water systems during and after the five-year drought for small towns such as East Porterville after household wells ran dry.
News Deeply
August 4, 2017
Yolanda Serrato, then 54, and her family of five were reliant on water from this tank in front of her house in East Porterville when this picture was taken in Sept. 2014. Serrato's well had dried up that year, during California's drought, but her house has now been connected to Porterville's water system by aÃâà...
News Deeply
July 7, 2017
Emergency drought spending already amounts to $27 million in the Central Valley, paying for everything from a new well in East Porterville to food subsidies, says spokesman Kelly Huston of the state Office of Emergency Services. Other state agencies, such as the Department of Water Resources and theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
August 19, 2016
But five years of punishing drought have stripped some of the state's most vulnerable residents of that basic necessity. ... Though many California communities still suffer from acute water shortages and poor water quality, East Porterville has been the "poster child" of this difficult drought, said Bill Croyle,Ãâà...
Los Angeles Times
May 6, 2016
Humberto Beltran shaves at the outdoor sinks and showers that are providedfor East Porterville residentswho have no running water. ... organizations have had a hand in helping the community, which drew international media attention for its exceptional suffering in the fourth year of California's drought.
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