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But to replace it with a much deeper well could cost around $40,000 and, like most small farmers, Scott doesn’t have that kind of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a predicament many small farmers face, says retired University of California farm adviser Richard Molinar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg\" alt=\"Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-400x524.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1440x1888.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1180x1547.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-960x1259.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have the same resources. They don’t have the same bankroll that the large corporate farms do,” he says. “So they’re, in many cases, living on the edge. Their farm is being held together with shoelaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molinar says Scott has been a voice for African-American farmers. In fact, Scott helped found the Fresno-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AAFCalifornia/\">African-American Farmers of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has devoted at least the last 20 years to not only farming but also to advocate for the black youth and African-American farmers,” Molinar says. “He’s been thinking of other people and not himself, and he is now in some constraints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Scott went into farming full time, he was an engineer for Pacific Bell. Now he spends his days growing mustard greens, turnips, collards, broccoli, lettuce, okra and black-eyed peas. He says small farming is a way of life that is being threatened, especially now with the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The small farmers’ way of life is something we must sustain,” Scott says. “This country was built on small farmers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Floyd Harris, a minister at New Light for New Life Church in Fresno, understands Scott’s plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is also a farmer and the founder of the Freedom School, the program the Standifer twins are enrolled in. The Freedom School teaches boys important life skills to help them become well-rounded, healthy men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748902\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"939\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-400x470.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1440x1691.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1180x1385.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-960x1127.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris says Scott also advised him on a community garden behind the church. “You know he reaches out, not just here in Fresno but he’s down in the Bay Area, he’s down in L.A.,” Harris says. “And so every seed that he plants, I will say, is a seed of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Scott hauls his produce every week to a neighborhood in Oakland, where he says there are plenty of liquor stores but not a lot of fresh food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris says that when Scott teaches kids what happens when seeds and water mix, it’s inspiring. “And three months later you can go to that same plant that you touched and you dug a hole for, and see that that one plant has 50 tomatoes, or 30 tomatoes green and red,” Harris says. “That’s hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is some hope for Scott. Another farmer, Paul Buxman, has started a campaign to raise money for him. Buxman is known for his tasty \u003ca href=\"http://www.tularecountytreasures.org/sweet-home-ranch-v.html\">Sweet Home Ranch \u003c/a>jams, but he’s also an accomplished impressionistic \u003ca href=\"http://www.shinnphoto.com/Paul-Buxman/\">painter\u003c/a> whose rural scenes of the Central Valley have sold all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says anyone willing to contribute $50 will be given a free lithograph. There are four to choose from, he says. So far, Buxman has raised about $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s help get this farmer some water,” Buxman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s calling his campaign Drill for Will.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it mock pie,” Dayvon says. “We also make our own homemade crust!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748564\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-800x1032.jpg\" alt=\"With Will Scott Jr.’s help, kids from Rev. Floyd Harris’ Freedom School grew tomatoes, collard greens and black-eyed peas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-800x1032.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-400x516.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-1440x1857.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-1180x1522.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-960x1238.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Will Scott Jr.’s help, kids from Rev. Floyd Harris’ Freedom School grew tomatoes, collard greens and black-eyed peas. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They entered their mock pie and canned relish into cooking and baking contests at the local fair, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnofair.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Fresno Fair\u003c/a>. Both entrees won first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers got their gardening and cooking skills through a program called the Freedom School at their \u003ca href=\"http://xyfloyd.wix.com/new-light\">New Light for New Life church\u003c/a> in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their mentors was a 75-year-old farmer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scottfamilyfarms.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Scott Jr.\u003c/a> He’s been teaching farming skills to young African-Americans for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice to know how to work the tractor, and grow food,” says Dayvon. “And Will Scott is a good role model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s been one for years. Scott helped establish a demonstration farm where kids can get their hands dirty. And he’s introduced hundreds of kids to agriculture in one way or another, either through talks he gives at churches and schools or out on the land, where he teaches farming step by step, row by row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only how to condition the land, but also how to plant and then do maintenance on it,” Scott says. “And then the harvest part of it and [we] also look at the marketing aspect of it, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says there’s still a negative association with farming that comes from a history of slavery and oppression. Scott’s own grandfather and father were sharecroppers in Oklahoma. He was 5 when they left the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748618\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748618\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-800x915.jpg\" alt=\"Twin brothers Dayvon and Dashon Standifer sell produce they grew themselves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-800x915.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-400x458.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-1440x1647.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-1180x1350.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-960x1098.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twin brothers Dayvon and Dashon Standifer sell produce they grew themselves. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s when we got off the tab,” Scott says. “You had a tab, you know. You were almost chained to the land. So when you paid your tab off, you’re free to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says agriculture can now mean a job, especially in California’s fertile Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, there’s farming the land but there are plenty of other related opportunities, he says, like installing drip systems. Or well drilling, he says, looking over his shoulder at his own well. It’s a topic he’s been confronted with lately. Because of the drought, Scott’s well will likely go dry by December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to take it deeper so I have access to more water, give me some kind of guarantee and less worry,” he says. But to replace it with a much deeper well could cost around $40,000 and, like most small farmers, Scott doesn’t have that kind of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a predicament many small farmers face, says retired University of California farm adviser Richard Molinar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg\" alt=\"Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-400x524.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1440x1888.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1180x1547.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-960x1259.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have the same resources. They don’t have the same bankroll that the large corporate farms do,” he says. “So they’re, in many cases, living on the edge. Their farm is being held together with shoelaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molinar says Scott has been a voice for African-American farmers. In fact, Scott helped found the Fresno-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AAFCalifornia/\">African-American Farmers of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has devoted at least the last 20 years to not only farming but also to advocate for the black youth and African-American farmers,” Molinar says. “He’s been thinking of other people and not himself, and he is now in some constraints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Scott went into farming full time, he was an engineer for Pacific Bell. Now he spends his days growing mustard greens, turnips, collards, broccoli, lettuce, okra and black-eyed peas. He says small farming is a way of life that is being threatened, especially now with the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The small farmers’ way of life is something we must sustain,” Scott says. “This country was built on small farmers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Floyd Harris, a minister at New Light for New Life Church in Fresno, understands Scott’s plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is also a farmer and the founder of the Freedom School, the program the Standifer twins are enrolled in. The Freedom School teaches boys important life skills to help them become well-rounded, healthy men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748902\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"939\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-400x470.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1440x1691.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1180x1385.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-960x1127.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris says Scott also advised him on a community garden behind the church. “You know he reaches out, not just here in Fresno but he’s down in the Bay Area, he’s down in L.A.,” Harris says. “And so every seed that he plants, I will say, is a seed of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Scott hauls his produce every week to a neighborhood in Oakland, where he says there are plenty of liquor stores but not a lot of fresh food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris says that when Scott teaches kids what happens when seeds and water mix, it’s inspiring. “And three months later you can go to that same plant that you touched and you dug a hole for, and see that that one plant has 50 tomatoes, or 30 tomatoes green and red,” Harris says. “That’s hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is some hope for Scott. Another farmer, Paul Buxman, has started a campaign to raise money for him. Buxman is known for his tasty \u003ca href=\"http://www.tularecountytreasures.org/sweet-home-ranch-v.html\">Sweet Home Ranch \u003c/a>jams, but he’s also an accomplished impressionistic \u003ca href=\"http://www.shinnphoto.com/Paul-Buxman/\">painter\u003c/a> whose rural scenes of the Central Valley have sold all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says anyone willing to contribute $50 will be given a free lithograph. There are four to choose from, he says. So far, Buxman has raised about $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s help get this farmer some water,” Buxman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I hope everyone else is, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sultana has a backup well but it’s contaminated with the fumigant \u003ca href=\"http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/basicinformation/1-2-dibromo-3-chloropropane.cfm\">DBCP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should our well go dry, we don’t have any backup well with potable drinking water,” says Michael Prado, board president for the town’s water services district. He says not everyone here understands that well levels drop in a drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people have commented and said, ‘Well, I pay my bill and as long as I pay my bill, I should be able to use as much water as I want to use,’ ” Prado says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need water meters to keep up with the governor’s request,” he adds. Under new state rules, small towns like Sultana are expected to cut back on water use by 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10548455\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10548455 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-800x726.jpg\" alt=\"Even though Kari Gonzales Quintana has no meter to dictate her use, she's letting her one-acre lawn go brown to save water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-800x726.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-400x363.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-1440x1307.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-1180x1071.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-960x871.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even though Kari Gonzales Quintana has no meter to dictate her use, she's letting her one-acre lawn go brown to save water. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At community meetings, Prado reminds folks: No more hosing down the dry, scorched streets in the summer, even if it does keep the dust in check. And as hard as it may be, no more water sharing. He says some residents send water to relatives in nearby towns where their private wells have gone dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he understands why they do it. “When you have a family member in need of water, if you can help them out, usually that’s what people try to do,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sultana can’t afford to put in water meters on its own. Tulare County is assisting the water district with an application to get a state grant. But there’s no guarantee: The district has already applied twice for grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denise England, a water resources analyst with Tulare County, says the current grant application will include other nearby towns that need water meters. She hopes the consolidation will boost Sultana’s chances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you can spread your fixed costs, the per user price goes down,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenny Rempel, communications and development coordinator for the\u003ca href=\"http://www.communitywatercenter.org/\"> Community Water Center, \u003c/a>says it’s important that low-income households and disadvantaged users get some of the funding and rebates going along with the state restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many small water systems don’t have the metering systems to help put conservation in place,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England agrees. She says Tulare County alone has more than 300 tiny water systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority have meters, she says, but “a smaller portion have meters that actually function.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, says England, just to put in meters for a small town like Sultana costs around $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He pays a flat water rate each month and there’s no water meter on his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For resident Kari Gonzales Quintana, not having a water meter is kind of like not having a gas gauge on your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you’re like, 'OK, I remember I put gas in on Tuesday. I’ve gone here and here and here. So I should have this much.' But how much do you really have?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10548412\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10548412 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Isaac-800x617.jpg\" alt=\"Isaac Orduño runs a feed store in Sultana and gives his birds and rabbits water from a 55-gallon drum. That way, he doesn’t have to keep the hose running.\" width=\"800\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Isaac-800x617.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Isaac-400x309.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Isaac-1440x1111.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Isaac-1180x910.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Isaac-960x741.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Isaac.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaac Orduño runs a feed store in Sultana and gives his birds and rabbits water from a 55-gallon drum. That way, he doesn’t have to keep the hose running. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quintana is also conserving, even though she, too, could get away with being frivolous. She says she no longer waters her lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This used to look like a park at one time,” she says, staring at the brittle and abandoned grass. “We have a little more than an acre. As much as we want a green lawn, we want water more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lived briefly in the neighboring town of Dinuba, which has water meters. She thinks people will conserve more once they see just how much water costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you get your first bill, you are going to make a change,” she says. “You’re going to make a difference in the way you do things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s worried that Sultana’s one safe well will go dry during this drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I don’t want to find out like some of these other people did when you start getting sand in your water that we’re out,” she says. “This is my family home. I don’t want to move. We’re doing our part. I hope everyone else is, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sultana has a backup well but it’s contaminated with the fumigant \u003ca href=\"http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/basicinformation/1-2-dibromo-3-chloropropane.cfm\">DBCP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should our well go dry, we don’t have any backup well with potable drinking water,” says Michael Prado, board president for the town’s water services district. He says not everyone here understands that well levels drop in a drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people have commented and said, ‘Well, I pay my bill and as long as I pay my bill, I should be able to use as much water as I want to use,’ ” Prado says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need water meters to keep up with the governor’s request,” he adds. Under new state rules, small towns like Sultana are expected to cut back on water use by 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10548455\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10548455 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-800x726.jpg\" alt=\"Even though Kari Gonzales Quintana has no meter to dictate her use, she's letting her one-acre lawn go brown to save water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-800x726.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-400x363.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-1440x1307.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-1180x1071.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana-960x871.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/Quintana.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even though Kari Gonzales Quintana has no meter to dictate her use, she's letting her one-acre lawn go brown to save water. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At community meetings, Prado reminds folks: No more hosing down the dry, scorched streets in the summer, even if it does keep the dust in check. And as hard as it may be, no more water sharing. He says some residents send water to relatives in nearby towns where their private wells have gone dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he understands why they do it. “When you have a family member in need of water, if you can help them out, usually that’s what people try to do,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sultana can’t afford to put in water meters on its own. Tulare County is assisting the water district with an application to get a state grant. But there’s no guarantee: The district has already applied twice for grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denise England, a water resources analyst with Tulare County, says the current grant application will include other nearby towns that need water meters. 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"content": "\u003cp>For most of her three decades in prison, Joyce Largo told herself she didn’t commit murder. She was only the driver, while other teenagers she was with kidnapped and killed a paraplegic man whose van they stole. But now she’s graduating from a program that made her spend months really mapping out all the people affected by her crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to write an impact letter, an impact statement, and it really opened my eyes to my crime. Before, I only saw it in a shallow way,” says Largo. “After I wrote it all out, I was shocked that I had more involvement than I thought I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been incarcerated since she was 16. Now she’s 48. But she says that, until now, there were no in-depth rehabilitation programs for “lifers” in prison like herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/182251213″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Largo is one of about 150 women graduating from a new program at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/CCWF.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Central California Women’s Facility\u003c/a> in Chowchilla, the largest women’s prison in the nation. It’s a months-long course designed to help prisoners tackle drug and alcohol addiction, anger management and family relationships. They also have to take an intensive class to help them understand the impact of their crimes on victims and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Denial is real. It’s very difficult to look at yourself, especially if you’ve done horrible things,” says inmate Candace MacDonald, who is serving a life sentence for breaking into a 73-year-old man’s home in Eureka and beating and smothering him to death in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was high on methamphetamine when she committed the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”SKDHqrplcZO9yxLK9ViDjDU8EktaT4HN”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of my addiction, I did things that I would never do. Then I hated the things I was doing, so I would do more drugs because I hated the things I was doing,” she adds. “It’s just a horrible cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald is now 64 years old, and one of a number of senior citizen inmates who’ve spent most of their adult lives in prison. Some now use walkers or wheelchairs. She says in all her years here, this is the first program that’s truly pushed her to work deeply on herself. It held a mirror to her, made her dig into painful truths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be able to peel that away, and look deep down inside, and gain an understanding of what you have done, and how it affected all of the people around you,” she says. “The ripple effect is incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald has unsuccessfully presented her case before the parole board a number of times over the years, repeating the same testimony she gave at her trial. But after doing this program, she says, she was able to speak from her heart and truly admit her regret. Last week, the board recommended that she be released on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10383400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"384\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although prisons like the Central California Women’s Facility have offered some substance abuse support groups in the past, the state has never really invested in this kind of rehab for lifers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report’s\u003c/em> Scott Shafer has \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201405161630/b\" target=\"_blank\">reported on the impact of some of those changes for male prisoners\u003c/a>, including this powerful \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/video-lifer-free-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">video \u003c/a>about lifer James Houston, released on parole in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new program at Chowchilla is the first rehab program for women lifers that’s officially recognized by the Board of Parole Hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really signals something very powerful happening inside of California’s prisons,” says Dana Simas. a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says nearly 800 California inmates serving life sentences have been released on parole this year, compared with just 25 in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift comes as California is under a U.S. Supreme Court order to relieve prison overcrowding. But Simas says that’s not why lifers are getting paroled. It has more to do with a 2008 state Supreme Court hearing that made it harder to deny parole to inmates no longer considered dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been given an opportunity for redemption. And we hope they take advantage of that, because it’s something that didn’t happen before,” adds Simas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduating from the rehab program at Chowchilla by no means guarantees parole. Inmates still have to go before the parole board and make their case, and the governor can block their release with a veto. Gov. Jerry Brown, though, is allowing around 80 percent of parole recommendations to move forward, far more than previous governors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Simas underscores that the women have to follow through with changing their lives and behavior if they’re paroled. Otherwise, they’ll go back to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of increasing parole rates for lifers who have committed crimes like murder is controversial. It raises concerns from family members and victims rights groups. But one group that generally opposes paroling more inmates says this kind of program might work because it’s for women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may sound macho, says Michael Rushford of the Sacramento-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjlf.org/about/bioMDR.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Criminal Justice Legal Foundation\u003c/a>, but he thinks women in prison for life are less likely to reoffend if they’re paroled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the chances of success are higher,” he says. “Especially if they’re well supervised. Everybody behaves differently when they’re watched, I’m afraid. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Denial is real. It’s very difficult to look at yourself, especially if you’ve done horrible things,” says inmate Candace MacDonald, who is serving a life sentence for breaking into a 73-year-old man’s home in Eureka and beating and smothering him to death in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was high on methamphetamine when she committed the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of my addiction, I did things that I would never do. Then I hated the things I was doing, so I would do more drugs because I hated the things I was doing,” she adds. “It’s just a horrible cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald is now 64 years old, and one of a number of senior citizen inmates who’ve spent most of their adult lives in prison. Some now use walkers or wheelchairs. She says in all her years here, this is the first program that’s truly pushed her to work deeply on herself. 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Last week, the board recommended that she be released on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10383400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10383400 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Inmate1-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Saore Hamilton, 39, of San Francisco has been in prison for 19 years. Her two children, ages 19 and 21, have grown up without her while she’s been incarcerated. “If I had this kind of class outside of prison, in school, I know my crime would not have been committed. All you need is someone that will listen to you and talk to you, and help you, guide you in the right direction. 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I didn’t have that.” (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although prisons like the Central California Women’s Facility have offered some substance abuse support groups in the past, the state has never really invested in this kind of rehab for lifers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report’s\u003c/em> Scott Shafer has \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201405161630/b\" target=\"_blank\">reported on the impact of some of those changes for male prisoners\u003c/a>, including this powerful \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/video-lifer-free-richmond\" target=\"_blank\">video \u003c/a>about lifer James Houston, released on parole in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new program at Chowchilla is the first rehab program for women lifers that’s officially recognized by the Board of Parole Hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really signals something very powerful happening inside of California’s prisons,” says Dana Simas. a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says nearly 800 California inmates serving life sentences have been released on parole this year, compared with just 25 in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift comes as California is under a U.S. Supreme Court order to relieve prison overcrowding. 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More than 170 residents in her town of Earlimart were exposed when a soil fumigant applied to a nearby potato field drifted into people’s homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire department rounded up those who were vomiting or ill at the middle school football field, asked them to strip down and blasted them with firehoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described this incident as a “turning point” in her life, after seeing how disrespectfully her neighbors were treated by emergency crews. “My anger became awareness, my tears became action, and I became an advocate,” she would later say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everywhere I go to all the little rural communities, everybody has a story to tell about being drifted on by pesticides,\" she told me in a 2009 interview. \"It’s that they were outside barbequing, or they were having a birthday party. It just happens so commonplace, people don't report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you think about it, if a pesticide accident happened in Malibu or Beverly Hills, there would be [an outcry], but because it's Tulare County, it's the poor people that are getting affected, the ones that are least able to pay the bills, the ones least able to afford a nebulizer or medication for asthma or other health problems already,\" De Anda told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa DeAnda, who died of liver cancer in late October at age 55, told her story to legislators in Sacramento and helped pass \u003ca href=\"80/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040SB391\">SB391, the California Pesticide Drift Exposure Act\u003c/a>. The law helped improve emergency response to pesticide drift. She also helped establish protective buffer zones limiting pesticide use around schools, homes and labor camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10348745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TDA-Funeral-1-of-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10348745 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TDA-Funeral-1-of-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mourners honored DeAnda at a memorial service at Delano High School on Sunday, Nov. 16. Her nephew read a letter from Governor Brown commending her tireless advocacy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TDA-Funeral-1-of-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TDA-Funeral-1-of-2-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/TDA-Funeral-1-of-2-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners honored Teresa DeAnda at a memorial service at Delano High School on Sunday, Nov. 16. Her nephew read a letter from Gov. Jerry Brown commending her tireless advocacy. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her work was honored by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.womensfoundca.org/\">Women's Foundation of California \u003c/a>with the GroundBreaker-DreamMaker award recognizing the state’s women leaders, as well as the \u003ca href=\"http://rosefdn.org/anthony-grassroots-prize\">Anthony Grassroots Environmental Prize.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she was honored daily by community members who recognized her as a voice for tiny, rural farmworker communities. She was a mother of seven, a grandmother of eight and a tireless advocate for a son with autism. She loved animals and would drive around with water bottles and dog food in the trunk of her car in case she ran into any stray animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would reach out to families, many of them immigrant farmworkers \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2009/10/16/reporters-notes-catching-the-drift/\">whose children had been sprayed while waiting for the school bus\u003c/a>, or who inhaled toxic quantities of pesticides from adjoining fields while harvesting crops. She would encourage them to report these incidents, rather than stay silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I interviewed DeAnda several times over the last 10 years, including for a \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2009/10/26/reporters-notes-catching-the-drift-part-2/\">two-part series on pesticide drift \u003c/a>and its impact on children and communities in the San Joaquin Valley. 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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/174286741\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a warm October night in Delano, the farming town north of Bakersfield where\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/12/take-a-tour-through-cesar-chavezs-delano-california/\"> Cesar Chavez’s union got its start\u003c/a>. At the annual Delano Harvest Festival, field workers coming in from the grape harvest stop for some fresh tacos. 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But my Dad is from Zacatecas,” she tells him, and launches into a story in Spanglish about how he worked the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got my vote, Zacatecas,” Zuniga tells her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria, a Stanford and Harvard graduate who went on to work for a U.S. senator from Michigan, was heavily courted by the Democratic Party to come back home to the Central Valley and run for office. And on paper she should be a shoo-in because of voters like Zuniga. She’s a Latina Democrat running in a district where 55 percent of registered voters are Latino, and Democrats have an almost 18-point registration edge over Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It could be a problem year for Latinos, because there’s not a lot to get them to the polls.'\u003ccite>Gary Segura, Stanford political scientist and co-founder of Latino Decisions\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But there might not be enough voters who will actually turn up in this rural district on Election Day, which in recent elections has been the most lopsided in California when it comes to Latino voter \u003cem>registration\u003c/em> versus \u003cem>turnout.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be a problem year for Latinos, because there’s not a lot to get them to the polls,” says Gary Segura, a Stanford political scientist and co-founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.latinodecisions.com/\">Latino Decisions\u003c/a>, a polling group focused on the Latino vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things we know that drive down voting participation are youth, low income, low levels of education, low levels of information and the absence of mobilization,” says Segura. “And all of those things are likely to be true in the 21\u003csup>st\u003c/sup> of California. 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Valadao says the thing that’s unique about the Central Valley is that voters here are not so tied to ethnic identity -- or political party -- including those who are registered Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may have stuck with their registration, but they’re not happy with the party,” says Valadao. “Especially when you look at water, you look at things where government is involved and how it’s hurt our valley. They’re finding they’re not being served well by their party, and they’re not falling for it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Valadao was among the first to buck his Republican Party and support comprehensive immigration reform, an effort that remains stalled on Capitol Hill. He says that support helps explain his lead in the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there could still be a Latino turnout problem, says Paul Mitchell, with the bipartisan firm \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com\" target=\"_blank\">Political Data Inc.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latino voting power is kind of like a series of Russian nesting dolls,” says Mitchell. “You have a very large Latino population, underneath that Latinos who are of eligible age and citizens, then those who are registered, and a subset who will actually vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell's data analysis suggests a gap between the 21st Congressional District's registered Latino voters and likely Latino voters of as much as 13 points this fall. That would be the biggest gap of any congressional district in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's one that Amanda Renteria is trying to overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up here, politics or the political system wasn’t anything I knew anything about.” says Renteria, who grew up the daughter of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand where these communities are coming from. [They say] ‘I’m working hard, trying to make it, I don’t have time for that stuff.’ Coming from that experience gives me an opportunity to be a different kind of bridge, to be able to say that’s why it’s important for you to have a voice, be able to vote,” says Renteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria’s focus has been signing up voters as permanent absentee, setting up a bilingual hotline to help with their questions and returning again and again to urge them to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just, ‘sign me up,’ ” says Renteria. “The metrics are more than that. The metrics have to be: Did you make a connection?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Delano festival, Renteria tries to make that connection with the teenage harvest princesses by chatting about their pigs, who are also vying for a title at the annual weigh-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is he still a little pig?” Renteria asks one of the teens, Samantha Ortiz, who was bitten by her pig while she tried to force-feed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, he’s 263 pounds now,” says Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria asks each of the teens whether they plan to vote. Some are too young, some aren’t citizens, and the rest? They just haven’t thought about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, of Political Data, says that kind of apathy in this congressional district tells a larger California story: Latinos may take a long while to vote at a level near or equal their demographic strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The electorate was 19 percent Latino in 2012, but the state as a whole was 19 percent Latino back in 1980,” says Mitchell. “That really is shocking. Today we have a population where Latinos are the largest ethnic group in the state. When will Latinos be the largest ethnic group in a statewide election? That might be when Chelsea Clinton’s daughter is running for president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says efforts to increase Latino voter mobilization across the state sometimes just focus on short-term results for one particular election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where are you originally from,\" asks Zuniga. \"L\u003cem>a familia\u003c/em>?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Woodlake. But my Dad is from Zacatecas,” she tells him, and launches into a story in Spanglish about how he worked the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got my vote, Zacatecas,” Zuniga tells her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria, a Stanford and Harvard graduate who went on to work for a U.S. senator from Michigan, was heavily courted by the Democratic Party to come back home to the Central Valley and run for office. And on paper she should be a shoo-in because of voters like Zuniga. She’s a Latina Democrat running in a district where 55 percent of registered voters are Latino, and Democrats have an almost 18-point registration edge over Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It could be a problem year for Latinos, because there’s not a lot to get them to the polls.'\u003ccite>Gary Segura, Stanford political scientist and co-founder of Latino Decisions\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But there might not be enough voters who will actually turn up in this rural district on Election Day, which in recent elections has been the most lopsided in California when it comes to Latino voter \u003cem>registration\u003c/em> versus \u003cem>turnout.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be a problem year for Latinos, because there’s not a lot to get them to the polls,” says Gary Segura, a Stanford political scientist and co-founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.latinodecisions.com/\">Latino Decisions\u003c/a>, a polling group focused on the Latino vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things we know that drive down voting participation are youth, low income, low levels of education, low levels of information and the absence of mobilization,” says Segura. “And all of those things are likely to be true in the 21\u003csup>st\u003c/sup> of California. That’s Amanda Renteria’s challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her biggest challenge, of course, is unseating the incumbent Republican congressman, \u003ca href=\"http://valadao.house.gov/\">David Valadao,\u003c/a> a Portuguese-American dairyman with his own son-of-immigrants story. He’s willing to \u003ca href=\"http://univisionfresno.univision.com/destino/video/2014-10-10/debate-rumbo-al-congreso-fresno-distrito-21\">debate her in Spanish on Univision\u003c/a>, albeit with a lot of Portuguese mixed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did struggle with my Spanish,” Valadao admits. “The fact that I’m making an effort, willing to embarrass myself with how rough it is, I think people appreciate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portuguese or Mexican? Republican or Democrat? Valadao says the thing that’s unique about the Central Valley is that voters here are not so tied to ethnic identity -- or political party -- including those who are registered Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may have stuck with their registration, but they’re not happy with the party,” says Valadao. “Especially when you look at water, you look at things where government is involved and how it’s hurt our valley. They’re finding they’re not being served well by their party, and they’re not falling for it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Valadao was among the first to buck his Republican Party and support comprehensive immigration reform, an effort that remains stalled on Capitol Hill. He says that support helps explain his lead in the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there could still be a Latino turnout problem, says Paul Mitchell, with the bipartisan firm \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com\" target=\"_blank\">Political Data Inc.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Latino voting power is kind of like a series of Russian nesting dolls,” says Mitchell. “You have a very large Latino population, underneath that Latinos who are of eligible age and citizens, then those who are registered, and a subset who will actually vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell's data analysis suggests a gap between the 21st Congressional District's registered Latino voters and likely Latino voters of as much as 13 points this fall. That would be the biggest gap of any congressional district in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's one that Amanda Renteria is trying to overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up here, politics or the political system wasn’t anything I knew anything about.” says Renteria, who grew up the daughter of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand where these communities are coming from. [They say] ‘I’m working hard, trying to make it, I don’t have time for that stuff.’ Coming from that experience gives me an opportunity to be a different kind of bridge, to be able to say that’s why it’s important for you to have a voice, be able to vote,” says Renteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renteria’s focus has been signing up voters as permanent absentee, setting up a bilingual hotline to help with their questions and returning again and again to urge them to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just, ‘sign me up,’ ” says Renteria. “The metrics are more than that. 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They just haven’t thought about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell, of Political Data, says that kind of apathy in this congressional district tells a larger California story: Latinos may take a long while to vote at a level near or equal their demographic strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The electorate was 19 percent Latino in 2012, but the state as a whole was 19 percent Latino back in 1980,” says Mitchell. “That really is shocking. Today we have a population where Latinos are the largest ethnic group in the state. When will Latinos be the largest ethnic group in a statewide election? That might be when Chelsea Clinton’s daughter is running for president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says efforts to increase Latino voter mobilization across the state sometimes just focus on short-term results for one particular election. But they need to have a long-term, sustaining impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 104048048 w=640 h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As we all know by now, California is in a serious state of drought. Some parts of the state are getting hit harder than others. The Central Valley is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We wanted to show what this long dry year has meant for one of the country’s richest farming areas. So, producer Suzie Racho and I headed down Highway 99 to meet up with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org\" target=\"_blank\">The California Report’s\u003c/a>\u003c/em> Central Valley bureau chief, Sasha Khokha, who’s based in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first stop was a cattle auction in the Tulare County town of Visalia. Agriculture is king here. Tulare County just passed Fresno as the top farm county in the nation. There are more cows than people in this county. Dairy alone is a $2 billion industry. But add in citrus, almonds, walnuts, pistachios and cotton, and the total is nearly $8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145450\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 369px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/almonds-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-145450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/almonds-small.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Pitigliano walks in an almond orchard during harvest season. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"369\" height=\"208\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominic Pitigliano walks in an almond orchard during harvest season. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Almonds are particularly lucrative and Dominic Pitigliano is one of the larger growers in Tulare County. We met him in an almond orchard in Woodville. As we spoke, a large harvesting machine moved along the rows, gripping each trunk one a time and shaking it until the almonds rained down. You could easily think there was an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitigliano is 33 years old — that’s young for a Central Valley farmer. He owns about 1,000 acres of almonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a hard year with the drought and no water allocation,” he tells us. “We’ve had a lot of diseases in the trees because of the lack of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep these trees alive, growers like Pitigliano are drilling down for water -- in some cases hundreds of feet below the surface. It’s like putting a huge straw in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water.'\u003ccite>—Gladys Colunga\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a race to the bottom because everybody doesn’t wanna see the valley dry up,\" Pitligano says. “Then again you don’t want to lose everything you’ve put your heart and soul into your whole life just disappear because you sat on your hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pitigliano and other \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/07/15/californias-drought-is-hurting-farmers-more-than-food-consumers/\" target=\"_blank\">farmers are worried sick about the drought\u003c/a>, we saw lots of orchards with acres of newly planted small trees. Pitliagno told us young almond and citrus trees use less water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So people have a wide range of tree ages,” he says. “They rip out high-using trees and plant young trees.” As for his own orchards, Pitliagno says, “I’m hedging my bets that in three years it’s going to be back to normal and I’ll be able to grow my crops again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers here are \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/06/02/drought-drives-drilling-frenzy-for-groundwater-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">drilling lots of new wells\u003c/a> to keep the farms going during the drought. All that groundwater pumping is affecting everyone -- on the farm or off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladys Colunga lives in the Tulare County farmworker town of Monson. It’s surrounded by orchards and vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\" alt=\"Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home one day from work, he took a perfectly good shower, and then I went to use the restroom. And when I flushed the toilet, nothing but dirt came out,” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband works the fields and his hours were cut this summer because of the drought, so the family has less money. On top of that, their well went dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colungas have six kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of laundry to do with no water. So they’re hauling water from neighbors and friends in barrels in the back of their pickup, and then scooping it into buckets to wash dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also trying to save enough water to run the swamp cooler that provides relief from the triple-digit heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s upsetting is that just down the road there are orchards behind us drowning in water,” Colunga says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that they need to get their crops as well, but then we’re a family, we have children and we need that water. I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water. We have the right to have that basic thing. It’s water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145451\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 325px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-145451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\" alt=\"Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside of her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"325\" height=\"183\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sasha and I told Tulare County Supervisor Allen Ishida about the conversation we had with Gladys Colunga. We asked what he would say to people like her who can’t afford to drill their own wells, even though they own their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county does not have funds to help her,” Ishida says. “It’s the individual’s responsibility to take charge of the situation they’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His point: The government can’t use public funds to help private well owners. So families like Gladys Colunga’s are pretty much out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term solution for communities like Monson may be to hook into a nearby town’s water system. But meanwhile, groundwater levels are dropping -- fast. Tulare County is issuing a record number of permits for people who want to drill wells, and Ishida says he knows that’s having an impact on the drinking water wells for nearby residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point in time, it’s a property right that you have,” Ishida notes. “You can drill a well and take the water that you need without any regulations by us or the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida is also a citrus farmer. We met him in one of his neighbor’s orange groves that had been abandoned due to the drought. It looked like a forest of thousands of brown dead trees with shriveled-up oranges.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"left long\">\n\u003ch3>More from the Central Valley:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/21/at-89-worlds-oldest-square-dance-caller-keeps-the-central-valley-dancing/\" target=\"_blank\">World’s Oldest Square Dance Caller Keeps Central Valley Dancing [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/communal-project-in-fresno-dakota-eco-garden\">Communal Project in Fresno Has Found a Different Way to Treat the Homeless [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/27/a-reporter-in-the-san-joaquin-valley-finds-fertile-ground-for-storytelling/\">A Reporter in the San Joaquin Valley Finds Fertile Ground for Storytelling\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I just hope someone doesn’t start a fire in here,” Ishida says. “I mean, all it takes is a match, and 40 acres are going to go up in flames.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida’s neighbors aren’t doing well because they have no groundwater. But his own orchards are OK. He bought river water from water contractors — at 10 times the normal price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is like liquid gold in the Central Valley these days. And Ishida says he’s not sure he can afford that again next year. Still, he’s hopeful. “You need to be optimistic, no matter what business you’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just folks living here who have a lot at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to remember, this is not just the San Joaquin Valley,” Ishida warns. “This is happening throughout the state of California. We could have 100,000 wells or more go out by October throughout the state. I mean it’s everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145453\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 396px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Clark, President of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Clark, president of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar's main well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what worries people like Mike Clark. He runs the water system for the town of Poplar, which has a population of 2,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to do any good if all these towns dry up and we don’t have any water,” Clark says. “(Then) you’ve got nobody to work the fields, because they don’t live here anymore. So it’s kind of a double-edged blade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average income in Poplar is about $13,000 per individual, he says. “I got residents that live in Poplar, if I raise the water rate by $5, they gotta go one day without eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town’s main well is straining to pull enough water this summer. Sometimes they’ve had to turn on \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005140850/a\" target=\"_blank\">a backup well contaminated with nitrates\u003c/a>. Residents are being warned that the water’s not safe to drink or cook with — especially for babies and pregnant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mike Clark and others in towns like Poplar, it can seem like farmers are using as much water as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145491\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 283px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145491\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\" alt=\"Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and is a Tulare County Supervisor. He shows Scott Shafer and Sasha Khokha his neighbor's farm in Lindsay, which has let 40 acres of oranges go. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"283\" height=\"339\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and a Tulare County supervisor. He shows Scott Shafer and Sasha Khokha his neighbor's farm in Lindsay, which has let 40 acres of oranges go. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They can waste water all they want and nobody’s sayin’ nothin’,” Clark says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought is starting to pit neighbor against neighbor — those with water and those without it. But the idea that farmers get too much of the water doesn’t sit well with growers here, including Dominic Pitigliano. He says critics aren’t seeing the whole picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did they grow the dinner they had last night?,” he asks. “They probably haven’t. Most people, they go to the store, buy everything they need for dinner that night, so they’re happy. So it’s hard for them to look at us bad when they’re taking advantage of everything we’ve given them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought is top of mind here — you hear it on talk radio, in cafes and restaurants. But one thing we heard repeatedly during our road trip is that the Central Valley is about much more than farmers on tractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To begin to grasp the complexity of life here, you have to do what we did. Get off the highway and meet some folks!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a hard year with the drought and no water allocation,” he tells us. “We’ve had a lot of diseases in the trees because of the lack of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep these trees alive, growers like Pitigliano are drilling down for water -- in some cases hundreds of feet below the surface. It’s like putting a huge straw in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water.'\u003ccite>—Gladys Colunga\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a race to the bottom because everybody doesn’t wanna see the valley dry up,\" Pitligano says. “Then again you don’t want to lose everything you’ve put your heart and soul into your whole life just disappear because you sat on your hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Pitigliano and other \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/07/15/californias-drought-is-hurting-farmers-more-than-food-consumers/\" target=\"_blank\">farmers are worried sick about the drought\u003c/a>, we saw lots of orchards with acres of newly planted small trees. Pitliagno told us young almond and citrus trees use less water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So people have a wide range of tree ages,” he says. “They rip out high-using trees and plant young trees.” As for his own orchards, Pitliagno says, “I’m hedging my bets that in three years it’s going to be back to normal and I’ll be able to grow my crops again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers here are \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/06/02/drought-drives-drilling-frenzy-for-groundwater-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">drilling lots of new wells\u003c/a> to keep the farms going during the drought. All that groundwater pumping is affecting everyone -- on the farm or off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladys Colunga lives in the Tulare County farmworker town of Monson. It’s surrounded by orchards and vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 380px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/field-reporting.jpg\" alt=\"Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sasha Khokha (left) and Scott Shafer (right) interview Dominic Pitigliano (center) at an almond orchard in Tulare County. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My husband came home one day from work, he took a perfectly good shower, and then I went to use the restroom. And when I flushed the toilet, nothing but dirt came out,” she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband works the fields and his hours were cut this summer because of the drought, so the family has less money. On top of that, their well went dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Colungas have six kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of laundry to do with no water. So they’re hauling water from neighbors and friends in barrels in the back of their pickup, and then scooping it into buckets to wash dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also trying to save enough water to run the swamp cooler that provides relief from the triple-digit heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s upsetting is that just down the road there are orchards behind us drowning in water,” Colunga says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that they need to get their crops as well, but then we’re a family, we have children and we need that water. I mean, we can live without a TV, we can live without cellphones, but we can’t live without water. We have the right to have that basic thing. It’s water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145451\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 325px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-145451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/gladys-small.jpg\" alt=\"Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside of her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"325\" height=\"183\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladys Colunga gathers water from buckets outside her home in Monson.(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sasha and I told Tulare County Supervisor Allen Ishida about the conversation we had with Gladys Colunga. We asked what he would say to people like her who can’t afford to drill their own wells, even though they own their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county does not have funds to help her,” Ishida says. “It’s the individual’s responsibility to take charge of the situation they’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His point: The government can’t use public funds to help private well owners. So families like Gladys Colunga’s are pretty much out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term solution for communities like Monson may be to hook into a nearby town’s water system. But meanwhile, groundwater levels are dropping -- fast. Tulare County is issuing a record number of permits for people who want to drill wells, and Ishida says he knows that’s having an impact on the drinking water wells for nearby residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point in time, it’s a property right that you have,” Ishida notes. “You can drill a well and take the water that you need without any regulations by us or the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida is also a citrus farmer. We met him in one of his neighbor’s orange groves that had been abandoned due to the drought. It looked like a forest of thousands of brown dead trees with shriveled-up oranges.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"left long\">\n\u003ch3>More from the Central Valley:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/21/at-89-worlds-oldest-square-dance-caller-keeps-the-central-valley-dancing/\" target=\"_blank\">World’s Oldest Square Dance Caller Keeps Central Valley Dancing [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/22/communal-project-in-fresno-dakota-eco-garden\">Communal Project in Fresno Has Found a Different Way to Treat the Homeless [Video]\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/27/a-reporter-in-the-san-joaquin-valley-finds-fertile-ground-for-storytelling/\">A Reporter in the San Joaquin Valley Finds Fertile Ground for Storytelling\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I just hope someone doesn’t start a fire in here,” Ishida says. “I mean, all it takes is a match, and 40 acres are going to go up in flames.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishida’s neighbors aren’t doing well because they have no groundwater. But his own orchards are OK. He bought river water from water contractors — at 10 times the normal price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is like liquid gold in the Central Valley these days. And Ishida says he’s not sure he can afford that again next year. Still, he’s hopeful. “You need to be optimistic, no matter what business you’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just folks living here who have a lot at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to remember, this is not just the San Joaquin Valley,” Ishida warns. “This is happening throughout the state of California. We could have 100,000 wells or more go out by October throughout the state. I mean it’s everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145453\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 396px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/mike-clark.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Clark, President of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Clark, president of the Poplar Community Services District, in front of Poplar's main well. (Annabelle Beecher/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what worries people like Mike Clark. He runs the water system for the town of Poplar, which has a population of 2,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to do any good if all these towns dry up and we don’t have any water,” Clark says. “(Then) you’ve got nobody to work the fields, because they don’t live here anymore. So it’s kind of a double-edged blade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average income in Poplar is about $13,000 per individual, he says. “I got residents that live in Poplar, if I raise the water rate by $5, they gotta go one day without eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town’s main well is straining to pull enough water this summer. Sometimes they’ve had to turn on \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005140850/a\" target=\"_blank\">a backup well contaminated with nitrates\u003c/a>. Residents are being warned that the water’s not safe to drink or cook with — especially for babies and pregnant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Mike Clark and others in towns like Poplar, it can seem like farmers are using as much water as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145491\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 283px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145491\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/sasha.jpg\" alt=\"Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and is a Tulare County Supervisor. He shows Scott Shafer and Sasha Khokha his neighbor's farm in Lindsay, which has let 40 acres of oranges go. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"283\" height=\"339\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Ishida is a third-generation citrus farmer and a Tulare County supervisor. 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