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Mark Grossi is a freelance journalist in the San Joaquin Valley who spent 2016 writing about environmental justice communities for the Alicia Patterson Foundation. For 25 years, he was the environment and science writer at The Fresno Bee.
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East Porterville was the hardest-hit community during the drought, when nearly 1,000 people were without water. Efforts to find a long-term fix have been successful but came with a big price tag and some important lessons.
An innovative project would see seven Tulare County towns plagued by polluted wells sharing a water treatment plant, but political infighting stalled the proposal days before a funding deadline.
Drought conditions continue for thousands of rural residents in the San Joaquin valley who rely on groundwater. And the race to dig deeper wells is a losing game for small communities and those on private wells.
FRESNO BEE: Blaze found unexpected ways of staying alive amid thick forest that hadn’t burned in a century.
FRESNO BEE: Fines, shaming and brown lawns are getting headlines in California. But there’s good reason to keep landscape alive, horticulturists say.
FRESNO BEE: Overgrown Sierra Nevada forests are primed for catastrophic blaze among trees decimated by drought and bark beetles.
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