narrator: on this episode of "earth focus," the most basic human need is also its most precious commodity. in california's central valley, home to 19% of the food pruction the wld, man ve witho clean dnking ter whi at thedge of mocco's saha regin, harvting wat from fohas the pontial toeeply imct a cultu. amera fos ring ccking] hutter clicking]

sherhunter: at was the dr store theust-colod buildi. on the her sid of it w th barber op. the histy of allsworth as inow it icolonel alensworthwhen he tired fr the arm-wanted place whe he coulgo and stle wh his pele, which wasn't too many places available at the time, and he found this piece of land. ring thtime whethere we droughtsverywherand thin were b in diffent towns d cies, allensworth rived. it thrid becausthey knehow

o make ithrive. art wit whayou havemake somhing th it annever beatisfied tht's quotatioby george whingtocarver-- denise adara: ooker t huer: nogeorge whington carver.but colol allenorth madthat happen he because this wasurs. this waour histy. this s our tow we did . and wh i sa "we," 'm saking of blacks kadar tulare ke used be the lgest freshter lake wesof the msissippi and ba in the 1890s. anas farmi became more prevale in therea, theater startedeing divted for th. and iteally hahad a signifant impact on theommunitythe commity was hriving,ut no counity thris witht qualitwater. at

th is what have too to get . and thod things th'vgiven us theseots, so it'manageabe for uto get the wat, but'm ab to do ts. ks may nobe or thelderly y not, b this isour sysem for ter. [stoveial clks] it's comin ell ringg]

rain whistle ares] nter: inhe past,t was a buling lite town, like i id. eople fr all arod came here. i ha that itas chipp away atthe downll of th communi was wat. and i'm here rig now 1-plus yrs ter sti trying to worat is townip, thiscommunit getting od, affoable, qualy water. jessi sner: all ght. so'd ke to srt with the st i wel reportummary.. we wereinally ae to comete a te well rently, whh was th main pot of disssn at this rning's meetin and theest wellid indice hat we c expect get goo complit water om this ot here we sted.

ey actuly have o wells. theells arek. they're not very hi-produci wells, t they bo have lels of arnic ithem tha in genel, exceedshe maxim contamint level at the ste sets safe drking wat. there's great dal of sence out there cumentinthe ill effectof arsen on hum healt arsenics definily a canr-causin ent. it'very impta that ey ave infuence owhat t timate pject tur out to becauset has be someing at they're hap with, tt ey' comfoable wit that they're coident inand that they n affordo run. jon chriensen:he history of ater inthe san aquin valley is reallthe history water in liforn and ithe ameran west. yoknow, agculture es e someing lik80% of t water icaliforn, and it is mad you kno

a multillion-doar indusy possle. i's onof the gat parades of cifornia d of e centr valley d of the sanoaquin vley, in particur, that the mid of so mu richnes that's created by ter--by owing the ery valable cro--there e ople whoon' have clean dnking war. anda mono: lanaris a sma town about 6 folks, loted abt 30 mines down from frno. it's majory latinoa lot of

foks here ke theiriving working surrounng fies. ok.h. is th, like, ere, like, tre' a clust trail homes? ma yes. s... monac is it there? , ok... thestarted tting upomes and settg up the homes i a ay that s not plned by local vernmentaround tm. then anat sompoint, lcal govement d become are of thcommuny but dinot incporate tm into officiatown or officl city. as result,he way tt califnia has alt withmall communits like lare is tt they ve a sysm where thcommunititself c set up a counity seices dirict to provide certainital serces, ke drinng waterto th residen. in the ely 20s, the cmunity svices strict und thathey had watethat wasontaminated th senic. sthey got grant from thfederal vernmenthat was aut $1.6 llion constrt anarsec treaent plan sabel sorio spking spash]

stayver he d drop ithe wateto fill up th. becauswhen thefill this, i's mo easy torop righhere. dreamthe ameran dream. [ctinues ispanish] th'secause iove ov here. [contues in snish] monaco: e communy was ally not iolved inhe proce

of the nstructi of thersenic tatment pnt. so reall what they saw happeni was a l of constrtion wasoing on, and then the bills skyrocketed. the arnic trtment plt was inalled in010, abo midway thrgh the yr. and tn 6 months ter, it s shut dn becauset was tocostly t orate [solio speing spanh] yoram con: the cllenge in all commities is

thathey're not le to tually r their o systs. you kw, they n't afrd, you ow, to he an orator th would bthere. ths is onef our laratories and is is where do varis types ofests omobile uts for war treatmt and desalition, war qualy analysisand so o and thiis imarilyn preparion for alwaylarger sle desigof systemthat arehen fiel deployabl this isater, no ampagne. well, we're lking at e cotrol terface for the plant that is nning atanoche.

ris linnan: we're in theanoche dinage strict off of rsell avee here, los bas, atne of thpilot trtment test tes for eating bsurfacerain waer. this partular proct house a prect forhe univsity of calirnia, loangeles. and th're tting seral presses volving revse osmos. if y had a eries ere in aarea like thi in thcentral valley, whe you ha lots o small communits that a sead ouover a lge area d you could put amall pla like ts, a pacge plantthere's a poential ere for costsavings-it woul pontiallbe a gamchanger. coen: theris n economes of scaleere. the more syems thatou have,he wer the st is. y can think abut all tse commuties as esstially bng a virtu ater disict. herthey are coected a inteet and trefore he thatenefit o

beingart of aistrict,ven thou geograpcally th'r noconnecte sder: i tnk it sods very prosing. an in fact i thinif smallommuties are gon have too treatmt, it's gonna ve be a mol like tt. dara: rht now, want make sue we ha enough wateror the pple to le here d for uso grow. and ght no we e at capity becae our sysm is old, and weeed to irove tha [sorio speing spanh] narator: aess to can drking wat in rura califrnia isomplicat, but remote llages tt lie thin mocco's soutest mntain rion, thepposite

true. re, nontditional solutis are beg embrac and ging hopto comnities in need [khadijghouate eaking nativeanguage] mila bargach: he the povert s beentaggerin n terms water.

peop were lving in rpetual endle anxiety d many of thwomen we telling how thewould go trsty andive watefirst the childre to the derly, and tohe anima. [dkey bray [gruntig] hazna taoute speing nativlanguage

baach: theater shoage an th irregulity of rnfall have me liveliod here ry difficu for theousehold [vehicle horn honks] [mhamed zaur speakg naive langge]

[aia derhem saki ench] baach: thempact oflimate chan just wiin the 1years at we, aan organation, ha been acve in the regi is rely stagging. there has en signifint incrse in thheat andn the summs. the sara is rht on the oer side the mouain

ands movingowards ts regionery stdily. [moun abbar saking french] bargachfog takeaway all yr visual then itomes very, vy slowly andracious. i run is organation th tod has theargest nctioninfog colltion project the wor.

barch: the fog goeshrough t net, anthen themall moleculeof waterhat are inde t fog arcaught ithe honeomb sort f nting. d then th avity, ey desce into gutter, d then we gathethem. [abb speakinfrench]

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announcer: "earth focus" is made possible in part by the orange county community foundation and the farvue foundation. ?o?o?ñ?ñ?ñ?ñ?ñ?o?o?o■ n

national priorities. [applause] narror: cuba is an achronism. ancient vehicles, crumbling infrastructure, and limited opportunities. but despit60 years of economic sations byhe unitestates, the socialist country survives. there's free education and a free world-class medical system. in 1958, fidel castro overthrew the military junto ruling cuba. newscaster: havana. january 1, 1959. [woman singing in spanish]