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She cooks rice flour in a steamer with sugar and water, and works the dough on a granite counter. She won’t let anyone in the kitchen, including this reporter. Her father gave her the dough recipe he got from his father -- and she’s kept it a secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They spent a lot of years perfecting it. And I like to keep it that way,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10351800\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/BakeryHistoric.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10351800 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/BakeryHistoric-400x250.jpg\" alt=\"Lynn Ikeda's grandparents started the Kogetsu-Do bakery in Fresno in 1915. 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She says it’s living history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that you can’t really get from books or photos or other things, because it’s that real touch of the living, of what it means to have that kind of history just in your own backyard,” Omachi says. “It’s a treasure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10351803\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IkedaAndEmi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10351803 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IkedaAndEmi-400x322.jpg\" alt=\"Lynn Ikeda and her 21-year-old daughter, Emi. 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If the programs can demonstrate with solid evidence that they have met those goals, the investors recoup their principal and get a return, typically from the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The asthma project is among the first to focus on improving health outcomes. But a rising number of “pay for success” projects are planned or underway around the nation, including in Ohio, Connecticut, South Carolina and Massachusetts. One seeks to expand early childhood education in Utah, for instance, and another to reduce homelessness in Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, private investors or foundations provide at least a portion of the seed money. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, for instance, raised $13.5 million from its investors for a New York project aimed at reducing recidivism and increasing employment among former inmates. Depending on the outcomes, which must be evaluated by an independent third party, the government will repay the investors and provide a return. Generally, it is a slice of taxpayer savings, ranging from 5 to 12 percent of the original investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were all excited about the idea of a whole new form of impact investing,” said Kirstin Hill, a managing director in Merrill Lynch’s global wealth management business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bonds, which first were devised in England, appeal to investors who want to see part of their portfolio go toward what they see as a social good. “People with lots of money are anxious to invest at least a portion in things like this, especially if you give them a reasonable return,” said John Vogel, who teaches business administration at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics, however, say it’s too early to see what impact the bonds will have, and question whether the effects can be accurately measured. Some are skeptical that many private firms will invest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing The Pie\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations are looking for ways to “grow the pie of funding that is available to the social sector” rather than relying only on philanthropic and government funds, said Rick Brush, CEO of Collective Health. The Connecticut company is helping to organize the Fresno project with Social Finance, a Boston nonprofit that designs social impact bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nirav Shah, director of Social Finance, said numerous health programs have a significant impact on patients but are outside of clinical settings so aren’t typically reimbursed by insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the asthma program, for example, a social impact bond could pay for home renovations such as stripping out carpet or getting rid of mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno project is still in its pilot stage: Organizers won’t start reaching out to investors until late next year Funding from banks, individuals and foundations would enable the asthma prevention program to expand from about 200 children to 3,500, they said. In this case, the returns could come from either the state or insurers, Shah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot program, which is funded by a grant of about $1 million from The California Endowment, is using claims data to track ER visits and measure the savings before turning to investors. The estimated savings per child is more than $7,700.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taking It To Heart\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno, asthma prevention workers ask parents to commit to three changes in the home to help prevent asthma attacks. Throughout the year, they follow up with in-person visits and phone calls. “The little knowledge we give them they really take it to heart,” Sixay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent day, Sixay stopped by the cramped house of 6-year-old Jovani Garcia-Vasquez. His mother, Maura Vasquez, said she used to rush her son to the hospital every time he had an asthma flare-up. She said that a doctor had advised her not to give the inhaler to her son because he could get addicted to Albuterol. “So I didn’t give it to him, hardly ever,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning from Sixay that the medication actually helps relieve the asthma symptoms, Vasquez began administering it more regularly. She said she hasn’t had to take him to the ER since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know how to help him,” she said. “Now I know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixay sat down with Jovani and asked him to point to faces that showed how he felt. When she asked “How is your asthma today?” he pointed to a happy face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixay, who works for the Central California Asthma Collaborative, said she is taking small steps toward solving a big problem. Fresno has one of the highest childhood asthma rates in California, with a fifth of children ages 5 to 17 affected. The county also has high rates of asthma-related pediatric emergency room visits and hospitalizations, paid for primarily by Medi-Cal, California’s public insurance program for poor people. All told, about $35 million is spent countywide per year for hospital costs for children with asthma, according to Collective Health and Social Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region has relatively poor air quality, said Vipul Jain, a professor at UC San Francisco and pulmonologist at Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center. “It’s this recurrent, vicious glob [of bad air] that never lets them free,” he said. Poverty, lack of regular care and poor housing conditions also contribute to high hospitalization rates, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jain said home interventions can certainly help, but good self-management, disease education and clinical care also are needed. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11642_P1030890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11642_P1030890-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"KQED's Sasha Khokha, on assignment in the San Joaquin Valley. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED's Sasha Khokha, on assignment in the San Joaquin Valley. (Suzie Racho/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: KQED's \u003cstrong>The California Report \u003c/strong>took a road trip earlier this month \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201408221630\" target=\"_blank\">to explore the Central Valley\u003c/a>. Here, Sasha Khokha, our Central Valley bureau chief, reflects on covering a vast and vastly complex region that few people slow down to see. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> have a friend from Berkeley who calls the San Joaquin Valley \"The Great Nothing,\" and I think that's the way most Californians see the place where I live and work. There's little to see here, the thinking goes, except endless farmland fading into a hot, stinky haze. Coming over the Tehachapis from L.A. or the Altamont Pass from the Bay Area, most of those whizzing past on I-5 or Highway 99 view the valley as something to endure on their way to somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, there's a grain of truth to that caricature. It is hot in the valley (except when it's cold and foggy in the winter). The valley is farm country (some of the most productive in the world). The air is bad (some of the worst in the nation). But, like every simplistic picture, the image most people have of the valley misses just about all of its character and complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The challenges of translating the 'other California' to audiences across the Golden State.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em> opened a Central Valley Bureau in Fresno more than a dozen years ago, it was because KQED recognized how important this region was becoming to the entire state. It's home to some of the fastest-growing cities in California. It's at the center of many key policy debates, from immigration to poverty and hunger, to water and high-speed rail. It's a place where farming has created great wealth, while workers in the fields may not know how they'll pay tomorrow's grocery bill or next month's rent. And it’s a place where a reporter can’t just parachute in. You have to call this place home to really understand its complexities — which is what I’ve done for the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The valley’s towns are sometimes no more than a few homes clustered around a crossroads. People here are often excluded from policy debates in Washington, in Sacramento or even in their own communities. I've talked to farmers who worry about surviving the drought, and community members worried about pesticide exposure. I’ve talked with parents worried because their teenage children play sports on days when air quality is at emergency levels and women farmworkers who pay a chilling price to get and keep their jobs, risking sexual assault in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My job is to translate this “other California” to audiences across the Golden State. To try and get listeners brushing their teeth in San Francisco, or stuck in traffic in San Diego, to care about people like Gladys Colunga -- a farmworker mom with six kids \u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/104048048\" target=\"_blank\">whose well has gone dry in the drought.\u003c/a> When she flushed the toilet one day, dirt came up. 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A nearby canal provided a decent bathing spot. “I’d take a jug of water and set it in the sun and wash my hair,’ she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then the city bulldozed the camp , along with other encampments downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the worst thing I think I’d ever experienced out there,” she says. “Because that was my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145388\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 378px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/couch-group_small.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-145388\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/couch-group_small.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Holmes (left) and other residents spend time in the living room of the Dakota Eco Garden. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"378\" height=\"213\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Holmes (left) and other residents spend time in the living room at Dakota EcoGarden. 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Although there is the occasional conflict, so far things seem to be running pretty smoothly, with everyone lending some expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One resident installed solar panels so the tents could have electricity. Others tend the garden, like 58-year-old Frank, who asked not to use his real name. Frank ran his own business until he had some debilitating health problems. While he looks for a new job, he’s also putting his agriculture degree to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’ve seen some little infestation here and there, of course. Aphids got to the squash, too,” he says pointing to a row of vegetables in the organic garden. “So that’s what’s going on, but see, you can see the tomatoes are really doing well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s thankful for the opportunity to live here. “I was gonna be basically living out of my truck and you know, fortunately, this situation came up and it’s worked out great. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/05/Rig_DeLaCruz_SK.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17878\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17878 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/05/Rig_DeLaCruz_SK.jpg\" alt=\"Rig_DeLaCruz_SK\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan de La Cruz operates a drilling rig probing for groundwater 2,500 feet beneath Fresno County. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steve Arthur practically lives out of his truck these days. But he’s not homeless. He runs one of Fresno’s busiest \u003ca href=\"http://www.arthurandorum.com/\">well drilling companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s officially getting crazy. We go and we go but it just seems like we can’t go fast enough,” he says, sitting behind the steering wheel as he hustles up and down Highway 99 to check on drilling rigs that run 24 hours a day, probing for water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some days, Arthur doesn’t even have time to stop for gas; he’s got an extra tank hooked up to the flatbed of his pickup. He says he’s lucky if he gets three hours of sleep a night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Toward the end of the week, I start to get run down pretty good,” he sighs. “On a Friday afternoon, you might see me parked on the side of the road taking a cat nap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties in the farm-rich Central Valley are issuing record numbers of permits for new water wells. Arthur says his company’s got an eight-month waiting list. Some of his competitors are backlogged more than a year. Drillers like Arthur say they’re even busier than they were\u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/watertransfers/docs/9_drought-1976-77.pdf\"> during the drought of 1977, \u003c/a>when Californians drilled \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/groundwater/well_info_and_other/california_well_standards/b74-81chap1a.html\">28 thousand new wells. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s officially getting crazy. We go and we go but it just seems like we can’t go fast enough.’\u003ccite>— Steve Arthur, Owner, Arthur & Orum Well Drilling\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“This is off the scales, here,” says Arthur, shaking his head. “It’s just amazing, the amount of people that call and want wells. A customer called this morning and I’m supposed to do two for him, and he said, ‘Add 14 to the list.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>You have to literally grab these guys and drag ‘em to your property and say ‘Please, please drill me a well!,’” laments citrus farmer Matt Fisher, who’s been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/04/08/cold-then-dry-dealing-california-citrus-farmers-a-double-punch/\">scrambling to keep his trees alive\u003c/a> after learning that he won’t get any water from federal reservoirs this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have even heard of drilling companies that won’t tell growers who’s in front of them, because guys are trying to buy the other guy’s spot in line,” says Fisher. “Its crazy, some of the things that are going on, but if you’re in our shoes, and you have to pay a guy $10,000 for his spot in line, that’s cheap compared to what you’re going to lose if you lose your whole orchard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not always about \u003cem>losing\u003c/em> trees, though. Right where a brand new almond orchard will be planted in rural Fresno County, a 70-foot high drilling rig bores a hole in the earth 2,500 feet deep. This well will cost the farmer about a million dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan de La Cruz works on this rig 12 hours a day, seven days a week, carefully guiding the drill bit. He’s standing in a little hut next to the drill hole that they call ‘the doghouse.’ It’s where workers keep a log of the layers of sand and clay they find, collecting samples every ten feet as the drill probes deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/05/DrillingSamples_SK.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17880\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17880\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/05/DrillingSamples_SK.jpg\" alt=\"Drillers collect samples from the bore hole for every 10 feet of depth. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drillers collect samples from the bore hole for every 10 feet of depth — but the records of what they find are considered confidential and not available to the public. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s also home to two other essential pieces of gear: a microwave and a fridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>This is basically where we live while we’re working,” says De La Cruz in Spanish. “We’ve got some \u003cem>nopales\u003c/em> (cacti) and zucchinis in here to cook up. The farmers bring us cantaloupes, tomatoes, whatever we want. They are so grateful because when we’re done with this well, these fields will have water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Zimmerer’s company,\u003ca href=\"http://www.zimwells.com/\"> Zim Industries,\u003c/a> owns this rig and a dozen others. He knows there’s a silver lining to the drought for well drillers this year. But he knows it can’t last forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t keep sustaining this amount of overdraft, we all know that,” says Zimmerer, standing on the platform next to the drill. “At this point in time, we don’t want to keep going on at this pace. It’s more of a temporary fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a sobering admission from a well driller.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Groundwater is like a bank account. You can’t take out more than you put in on an ongoing basis.’\u003ccite>— Jerry Cadagan, water activist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California’s aquifers supply 40 percent of the state’s water in normal years but in this drought year, it could be closer to 65 percent. That makes it our biggest water reserve –- bigger than the Sierra snowpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are already sounding alarm bells about pumping too much groundwater. State water managers estimate that water tables in some parts of the Valley have dropped 100 feet \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiawaterfoundation.org/uploads/1397858208-SUBSIDENCEFULLREPORT_FINAL.pdf\">below historical lows\u003c/a>. As water levels sink, \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/how-flooding-fields-could-alleviate-water-supply-stress/\">the land can sink, too\u003c/a> — in some places by about a foot per year. Groundwater pumping could also put \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7501/nature13275/metrics/news?message-global=remove\">more stress on the San Andreas Fault.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only seismic consequence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a one-way trajectory towards depletion. Toward running out of groundwater in the Central Valley,” warns Jay Famiglietti, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ess.uci.edu/~hydrogroup/\">a hydrologist at UC Irvine\u003c/a>. He points out that California is the only western state that doesn’t really monitor or regulate how much groundwater farmers and residents are using.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you own property, you can dig a well and you can pump as much groundwater as you a want,” says Famiglietti, “even if that means you are drawing water in from beneath your neighbor’s property into your well. So it’s not unlike having several straws in a glass, and everyone drinking at the same time, and no one really watching the level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17881\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/05/FullRig_SK.jpg\" alt=\"Drillers are bringing in large rigs like this one from all over the west, to drill deeper wells in the quest for water. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drillers are bringing in large rigs like this one from all over the west, to drill deeper wells in the quest for water. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That could change. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/04/22/california-edging-closer-to-regulating-groundwater-for-the-first-time/\">A bill\u003c/a> making its way through the state legislature could, for the first time ever, require local agencies to track, and in some cases, even restrict groundwater pumping. Some farmers oppose it, saying it’s a violation of their property rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But retired attorney and water activist Jerry Cadagan says counties should be thinking hard right now about the permits they’re giving to farmers to drill thousands of new wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to put reasonable restrictions so people are only pumping out a reasonable amount of water that underlies their land,” says Cadagan, who lives in Stanislaus County, and is \u003ca href=\"http://www.modbee.com/2014/04/28/3314605/jump-in-well-permits-in-stanislaus.html\">suing farmers there\u003c/a> for drilling wells without considering the environmental impact. “Groundwater is like a bank account. You can’t take out more than you put in on an ongoing basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers too, are starting to worry. In Merced County, farm leaders are trying to stop two private landowners from \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/05/19/3934223/landowners-try-to-sell-groundwater.html\">selling as much as 7 billion gallons\u003c/a> of well water to farmers in another county. They call it “groundwater mining.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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Right where a brand new almond orchard will be planted in rural Fresno County, a 70-foot high drilling rig bores a hole in the earth 2,500 feet deep. This well will cost the farmer about a million dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan de La Cruz works on this rig 12 hours a day, seven days a week, carefully guiding the drill bit. He’s standing in a little hut next to the drill hole that they call ‘the doghouse.’ It’s where workers keep a log of the layers of sand and clay they find, collecting samples every ten feet as the drill probes deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/05/DrillingSamples_SK.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17880\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17880\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/05/DrillingSamples_SK.jpg\" alt=\"Drillers collect samples from the bore hole for every 10 feet of depth. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drillers collect samples from the bore hole for every 10 feet of depth — but the records of what they find are considered confidential and not available to the public. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s also home to two other essential pieces of gear: a microwave and a fridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>This is basically where we live while we’re working,” says De La Cruz in Spanish. “We’ve got some \u003cem>nopales\u003c/em> (cacti) and zucchinis in here to cook up. The farmers bring us cantaloupes, tomatoes, whatever we want. They are so grateful because when we’re done with this well, these fields will have water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Zimmerer’s company,\u003ca href=\"http://www.zimwells.com/\"> Zim Industries,\u003c/a> owns this rig and a dozen others. He knows there’s a silver lining to the drought for well drillers this year. But he knows it can’t last forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t keep sustaining this amount of overdraft, we all know that,” says Zimmerer, standing on the platform next to the drill. “At this point in time, we don’t want to keep going on at this pace. It’s more of a temporary fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a sobering admission from a well driller.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Groundwater is like a bank account. You can’t take out more than you put in on an ongoing basis.’\u003ccite>— Jerry Cadagan, water activist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California’s aquifers supply 40 percent of the state’s water in normal years but in this drought year, it could be closer to 65 percent. That makes it our biggest water reserve –- bigger than the Sierra snowpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are already sounding alarm bells about pumping too much groundwater. State water managers estimate that water tables in some parts of the Valley have dropped 100 feet \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiawaterfoundation.org/uploads/1397858208-SUBSIDENCEFULLREPORT_FINAL.pdf\">below historical lows\u003c/a>. As water levels sink, \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/how-flooding-fields-could-alleviate-water-supply-stress/\">the land can sink, too\u003c/a> — in some places by about a foot per year. Groundwater pumping could also put \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7501/nature13275/metrics/news?message-global=remove\">more stress on the San Andreas Fault.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only seismic consequence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a one-way trajectory towards depletion. Toward running out of groundwater in the Central Valley,” warns Jay Famiglietti, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ess.uci.edu/~hydrogroup/\">a hydrologist at UC Irvine\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2014/02/2014-02-27b-tcr.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many California cities struggle with how to revitalize their downtowns to make them attractive, hip places that draw in retail and foot traffic. Fifty years ago, Fresno built the state's first outdoor downtown pedestrian mall. It was a pioneering idea at the time, but on Thursday the City Council will consider allowing cars back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a bold idea back in the 1960s: a cure for cancerous sprawl gobbling up open land and destroying the urban core of cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1968 documentary, called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTS_LLJvcw\">Fresno\u003c/a>, A City Reborn,\" chronicles the rise of the first open-air pedestrian mall on the West Coast -- in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This film reports the story of one city which faced up to its urban crisis, a city in which government, citizens, and planners, working together are creating a city, reborn,” says a somber narrator, over footage of menacing traffic. “Downtown streets were congested, parking was inadequate, and pedestrians were endangered. The solution? Separate cars and pedestrians for the benefit of both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Downtown streets were congested, parking was inadequate, and pedestrians were endangered. The solution? Separate cars and pedestrians for the benefit of both.\" \u003ccite>\"Fresno, A City Reborn\" 1968\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The walking mall, designed by landscape architect \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Eckbo\">Garrett\u003c/a> Eckbo, banned cars. It replaced potholes with public art, and tangles of telephone wires with a leafy canopy of shade trees. And dozens of sculptures, mosaics and fountains, including a rare sculpture from the French painter Jean Renoir. (See some of the mall’s artistic highlights \u003ca href=\"http://www.gofresnocounty.com/Fulton%20Mall/FultonPage4.htm\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the 1964 opening of the mall, Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown delivered the keynote speech. He predicted visitors would come \"from all over the country to see this bold and beautiful new look in American cities. ... Above and beyond what this pioneering effort means to Fresno, it stands as evidence to the entire nation that one of our greatest problems can be successfully met and solved. I refer to the problems of our cities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s Fulton Mall became a national model, and nearly 200 other U.S. cities followed, putting in their own outdoor pedestrian malls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a noble idea that just did \u003ci>not\u003c/i> work. The reality is that commerce and cars work together,” says Craig Scharton, sitting at a table that looks out onto the mall at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/peevespublichouse\">Peeve’s\u003c/a> Public House, the new pub he’s just opened. It specializes in locally grown products, and it’s one of the few places on the mall that’s hopping at the lunch hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scharton studied pedestrian malls extensively when he worked for Fresno, overseeing downtown revitalization. He says he understands the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like, we won, we stuck it to the car,” he says, over the din of the lunch crowd. “That stupid, stinky, noisy car, we banned it. Good for us, we won. Well, we killed our downtown in the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Fresno’s Fulton Mall sits mostly empty. Only a few of its fountains, designed to mimic the topography and rivers of the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada, still have water in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“That stupid, stinky, noisy car, we banned it. Good for us, we won. Well, we killed our downtown in the process.” \u003ccite> Craig Scharton, Former City of Fresno Employee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The abandoned historic buildings that aren’t shuttered with metal gates are home to discount stores, selling cowboy boots and T-shirts. Retired farmworkers are among the few who sit on the mall’s circular benches. Men like Alvaro Acevedo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a park. If you really look at it, it’s a park,” Acevedo says in Spanish. “I come and sit a while. I buy myself a pair of shoes, a soda. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s not the only city grappling with a stagnating pedestrian mall. Many cities have opened theirs to traffic over the years. Sacramento is a recent example. Only a few, like Santa Monica, have successfully revamped them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno pub owner Scharton, along with the city’s mayor, Ashley Swearingen, back the idea of putting cars on the mall as a way to boost downtown. The art would be moved to wide sidewalks that still encourage walking and window-shopping. It would feature two lanes of slow-moving traffic, with parking right in front of businesses, and outdoor dining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that proposal is sparking fierce debate among Fresno residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the idea of a cafe setting, people sitting next to parking and idling cars, is not going to be the draw they think it’s going to be,” says Doug Richert, co-chair of the Downtown Fresno \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DowntownFresnoCoalition\">Coalition\u003c/a>, which opposes plans to reintroduce traffic to Fulton Mall\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richert walks the length of the mall, pausing to point out some of its historic features. He says yanking out mature trees and adding cars is exactly the wrong formula for a city grappling with lack of park space and some of the nation’s worst air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“I think the idea of a cafe setting, people sitting next to parking and idling cars, is not going to be the draw they think it’s going to be.” \u003ccite> Doug Richert, Downtown Fresno Coalition Co-chair\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Moving sculptures and mosaics, he says, would undo the vision of the mall itself as a work of art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such a unique place, where you can not only see magnificent pieces of art, but also go up and touch them and be close to 'em,” he says, standing next to a Brass water fountain by famed Seattle sculptor George Tsutakawa, Seattle. “Refurbish and renovate (the mall), and it would be totally unique in the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richert says suburban sprawl is what’s killing downtown Fresno: the same problem urban planners worried about in the 1960s. 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She gingerly made her way in the darkness towards a heavy door built into the brick wall, leading to an adjoining basement on the other side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you can see, [the door] is nail-studded, very old, reinforced,” said Omachi. “ It has something very interesting right there: It’s a peephole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omachi believes these rooms may have been secret dens for gambling or prostitution. Many locals in Chinatown say there may be even a network of freestanding tunnels underground here, but that has yet to be proven definitively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omachi said she’s worried shaking from the construction will affect the foundations of Chinatown’s buildings. 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"filters": [
"Any Region"
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},
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"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
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"error": null
},
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"isBot": true
}
}
