Robin Meadows

Robin Meadows is a science journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who covers water and climate change adaptation in the American West.

Bottles filled with contaminated tap water from San Joaquin Valley communities are on display at the Visalia, California, office of the Community Water Center, which advocates for clean drinking water for all.
Environment

How Water Contamination Is Putting California's San Joaquin Valley at Risk

More than one million people in the San Joaquin Valley region have been exposed to unsafe drinking water in recent years from pesticides, arsenic, nitrate, and uranium. And many communities also face multiple environmental health threats.