“They’re working and risking their lives, not just through the pandemic, but right now through a heat wave,” said state Sen. Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger), co-author of the bill, whose district is in the Central Valley. “They’re risking their lives to provide food for us. Why wouldn’t we invest in them as well?

California State Senator Melissa Hurtado and former Communications Director for the White House Climate Change Task Force Paul Bledsoe talk to Kendis Gibson and Lindsey Reiser about the dangerous new reality of extreme heat. 

When the one working well serving the unincorporated community of Teviston in Tulare County stopped working last month, the roughly 1,000 people who live there were left without running water in the middle of a drought.

NBC News' Guad Venegas gets an inside look at a small California town that is having water shipped to its residents because of a broken water well that has left them dry ahead of yet another heatwave.

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When the one working well serving the unincorporated community of Teviston in Tulare County stopped working last month, the roughly 1,000 people who live there were left without running water in the middle of a drought.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with state Sen. Melissa Hurtado of the California Legislature about her district's struggle with widespread drought and water shortages.

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State Senator Melissa Hurtado and Assemblymember Rudy Salas on Tuesday lauded the legislature’s passage of more than $73 million in the state budget for South Valley communities.

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This is how California’s water crisis is going these days: The only functioning well in the rural community of Teviston broke in early June, leaving more than 700 residents without running water as temperatures in the Central Valley soared to triple-digits in a drought.