A decade ago, California passed a law recognizing water as a human right. However, more than a million residents, especially in rural communities, still lack access to safe drinking water. Activists from the Central Valley traveled to Sacramento to demand that legislators not end this year’s session without first approving proposals that would help make the human right to water effective. Esther Quintanilla, a reporter for KVPR public radio in Fresno and a member of the Central Valley News Collaborative, brings us this report from Sacramento.
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