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1,200 Household Wells in Tulare County, Southeast of Fresno, Have Been Tapped OUT
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When the wells run dry: California drought forcing some families to live in 'Third-World-type conditions'
Anyone heard anything recent on Lake Mead?
From the link:
""There it goes," said Lozano, a 40-year-old disabled vet, masking his desperation with a smile. "That's how we do it in Okieville now."
Millions of Californians are being inconvenienced in this fourth year of drought, urged to flush toilets less often, take shorter showers and let lawns turn brown. But it's dramatically worse in places like Okieville, where wells have gone dry for many of the 100 modest homes that share cracked streets without sidewalks or streetlights in California's Central Valley.
Farming in Tulare County brought in $8.1 billion in 2014, more than any other county in the nation, according to its agricultural commissioner. Yet 1,252 of its household wells today are dry, more than all other California counties combined.
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[link to www.foxnews.com]
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