CA Water Board

State Water Resources Control Board Chair Joaquin Esquivel sat down with KVPR’s Elizabeth Arakelian to discuss groundwater resources, and why his agency may be placing a region of Kern County under probation.

A report issued by state auditors on Tuesday said that more than 900,000 Californians lack access to clean water and the state isn't acting fast enough to improve water quality. Most of the 370 failing water systems are in economically disadvantaged communities, many in the Central Valley.

Low income communities across the San Joaquin Valley and other regions of the state are being hit hard by rising water and utility debt according to a…