Climate Change, Drought, and Water Contamination: The Untold Story of California’s San Joaquin Valley
By Ellyn Kail on January 15, 2021
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. Jennifer, a mum of three small children, is drying off her three-month-year-old baby, after giving him a bath in Three Rocks, in the San Joaquin valley, California. The water she just bathed her son in is contaminated. As she is drying her son, she talks about how the water smells bad and tastes awful.
The Wellcome Photography Prize 2021 is
. They’re looking for the human stories behind three urgent health challenges: mental health problems, infectious diseases, and global heating.