The Fight for Groundwater in California's San Joaquin Valley
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.
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.
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.