“Thousands who rely on water from shallow wells drilled in wetter times found none coming from the home tap this past summer. Many of them were the very farm workers who harvest the nuts, fruits, and vegetables fed with the water mined from the deeper wells. The irony brings hot, guilt-ridden tears.
I think of the thirsty farm workers when I stand at my kitchen sink, washing the fruits of their labors. The parch after a long day in the field that cannot be quenched by a simple glass of water from the faucet. The parch after a long day in the field that cannot be quenched by a simple glass of water from the faucet. Hard-earned dollars spent on costly bottles of water because the body cannot live, let alone toil in blistering heat, without it. A hot soak in the tub for the back, aching after fourteen hours of stooping to pick my fresh asparagus, an impossible dream.”
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