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.

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1. Sad to see the rich Republican farmers...

are not reducing their waste. Something needs to be done.

[JayhawkSD]

2. And still San Diego has water use restrictions...

...which are voluntary, not mandated.

Landscape irrigation between 6pm and 10am is mandated, but it is merely suggested that it be limited to three days per week. If you want to water twice per day, seven days per week, you are not breaking and rules.

We will probably keep those water use regulations until we have no water to regulate.