SAFER Archives - SJV Water

New administrator assigned to help with Teviston’s water woes

August 23, 2023

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

The state has assigned an engineering company to take control of, and improve, the water system in the small Tulare County town of Teviston. Teviston, a rural community of about 460 people, has been hard hit by water problems for years. The town well broke down in the drought of 2021, leaving families without water…

Drinking Water

Got connections in rural SJV towns? Know how to work a room? The state may have a job for you…

March 3, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

If you know your way around impoverished, rural communities with bad drinking water in the San Joaquin Valley, the state needs your help. A highly anticipated $130 million annual program to fix bad drinking water systems in disadvantaged communities has sputtered getting off the ground because the state can’t seem to connect with residents. So,…

Drinking Water

Clean water advocates hoping to safeguard SAFER funding

August 5, 2020

• by Lois Henry

Just when it looked like small drinking water systems in California were finally getting the long-term help they so desperately need, along came COVID-19. The state is peppered with failing small systems, many serving low-income communities without the resources to repair them. At least one-third of those failing systems are in the San Joaquin Valley,…

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New administrator assigned to help with Teviston’s water woes

Got connections in rural SJV towns? Know how to work a room? The state may have a job for you…

Clean water advocates hoping to safeguard SAFER funding

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