Shelly East: The poor communities the farm worker communities that have been chronically under-invested and don't have the water infrastructure particularly adequate wells or municipal water systems. This isn't a coincidence because farm worker communities have been sort of left on the dusty byways of the central valley away from the largely white farming towns forever so households and small farmer communities are left without water.
Despite the rain-soaked year California has had, the ongoing issues of drought and limited water remain. Bloomberg reporters Peter Waldman, Mark Chediak, and Sinduja Rangarajan join this episode to talk about how farms that grow lucrative cash crops like almonds and pistachios are digging deeper and deeper wells to tap the state’s dwindling groundwater supply–leaving people in some communities with less to drink.
Read the investigation here: Groundwater Gold Rush
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