A Moneyball Approach to Clean Water in California

Route Fifty: California has a lot going for it as a state, including one of the world’s largest economies and solid fiscal conditions. But abundant sources of clean water is not typically listed as one of its assets. Out of a population of around 40 million, the state estimates that “up to 1 million Californians lack access to clean, safe drinking water at some point during the year.”

Horacio Amezquita, general manager for a low-income housing cooperative of farmworkers in Salinas, California, recently discussed his community’s decades-long, ongoing struggle to maintain safe and clean water for their 300 residents with an assorted crew of policy wonks, data heads, academics and public officials.

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