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Rural communities of color plagued by racial and rural water gap

Expensive, bad water: How an 'upside-down water system' plagues rural communities of color

Amber X. Chen

Nexus Media News

This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News and Ambrook Research.

For years, Michael Prado has provided bottled water to his neighbors in Sultana, a town of about 785 people in California’s Central Valley. That’s because most wells in town have been contaminated by runoff from agriculture, said Prado, who is president of the Sultana Community Services District. Only one well meets state standards for safe drinking water — he’s glad the town has it, but it’s not enough.

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