The lack of clean water continues to affect more than one million residents in impoverished rural and urban areas in California, most of them Latino and African-American families. A bill that would have created a fund to remedy the water problem in these communities was put on hold until after the November elections. Fed-up residents of the San Joaquin Valley are now attempting to use those same elections to make themselves heard in what they call a civil rights crisis. Ruben Tapia reports from Kern County in California’s Central Valley.
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