Local East Porterville Residents Without Water As Wells Go Dry During California Drought

[KamaAina]

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/08/27/porterville-residents-without-water-as-wells-Hundreds of people in a California town have no water after wells ran dry during the state’s drought.

The small town of East Porterville in Tulare County has about 7,300 residents, and at least 300 homes have been without water for weeks.

“We can’t shower. We’re wearing dirty clothes. My kids had to wear dirty clothes to school this morning,” said Elizabeth Baker. “I had to go across the street last night to get water for my kids from the fire department.”

The county set up a 5,000-gallon water tank for residents to help with flushing toilets and irrigation, but now drinking water is the problem. They had to distribute more than 15,000 gallons of drinking water last week.

There are fears the problem could be even worse as people believe some people aren’t reporting their wells have gone dry out of fear their landlords will evict them, or their children will be taken away. In fact, the county didn’t know how dire the problem was until they were tipped off by a nonprofit group.

Who's next??

[marym625]

1. The series, Years of Living Dangerously

Showed Yemen will be the first country to be without water. They're already shooting each other when any becomes available.

Scary stuff. We don't do something NOW about global warming, we're screwed.

Nice post. Thanks for it.

[NightWatcher]

2. But how do their lawns look?

I seriously wish we'd stop wasting precious water on over fertilized lawns in this country. Not only does the runoff affect the rivers and oceans, but we're wasting drinking water. I imagine a scene in the near future where one of our kids tells their children that not only did we have water, but we poured it on the ground to make the non native grass look pretty.