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State Water Board issues letter giving Exeter and Tooleville six months to negotiate a voluntary consolidation, or face a mandatory order

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County will use $90 million in COVID relief funds to provide disadvantaged communities with lasting programs and projects.

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In July, Laurel Boylan turned on the kitchen faucet in her Clovis, California, home. Nothing came out. There was no water in the bathrooms, either. “When we moved here 19 years ago, we had a well 100 feet deep, with a tremendous amount of water,” she says. “Over the years, the water pressure kept going down.”

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Even before the Fresno Planning Commission meets on Wednesday to review the resubmitted petition for an industrial rezoning in southwest Fresno, it is generally believed that whatever decision the commission reaches will not be the final say in the matter.

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Fourteen years ago, Heriberto Sevilla came across a ranch on the outskirts of Madera set among fields of stalk grass and bright wildflowers. Pepper trees dotted the meadow, and children played in the natural lakes created by heavy rains.

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Tooleville’s ground water wells go all but dry, new solutions are on the horizon after State Water Board forces Exeter and Tooleville to begin consolidation negotiations.

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Dozens of Tule River Indian Tribe members have a new place to call home, thanks to a new affordable housing project by the Tule River Indian Housing Authority and Visalia-based non-profit Self-Help Enterprises, along with other partners.

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Ribbon cutting event at Sand Creek rental community marks first completed Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SO

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A group of organizations in the San Joaquin Valley are providing drinking water resources to those impacted by the drought. The California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley Water Workgroup have created a plan and a list of resources for private well owners and small communities who have lost or are worried about losing access to drinking water due to shrinking groundwater levels.

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A lot has happened over the past five years, but not much has changed in the tiny farmworker town of Okieville. Wells went dry en masse in Tulare County, including in Okieville, during the last drought in 2012-2016. Since then, the state has funded a new well for the town.

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