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‘I’m scared of getting sick from the water’
Some rural California communities have waited nearly a decade for state regulators to repair their tainted drinking-water systems. Image credit: Martin do Nascimento for the California Health Report May 5, 2021
When Ramona Hernandez turns on her kitchen faucet in El Adobe, an unincorporated town just a few miles southeast of Bakersfield, the water that splashes out looks clean and inviting. But she doesn’t dare drink it.
“You worry about your health,” she said in Spanish as she sat in her tranquil front yard one morning early this spring, her elderly mother-in-law working in the garden behind her.
been significant in the advancement of the puc. and i don t know if we can keep moving the way that we re moving without all three of them. so thank you. chair kim: thank you, mr. kelly. good afternoon, supervisors. phil ginsberg, general manager of the park and rec department. the fact that he has so many people here, both from labor and management, from public power, and public parks, from the south side of the city and the north side of the city is a testament to who he is. he is someone who is able to really bring people together, and he is an incredibly giving public servant. i ve had the pleasure of knowing him for well over 10 years in a variety of capacities and now i consider him and local 261, the closest of partners at the recreation and parks. vince is a fierce advocate for what is right, he s a fierce advocate for social justice, but he s also able to keep his eye on really the big picture. and vince is someone who is focused on accountability. he s focused
about her. she s been with the department for such a long time. she has all the institutional knowledge. in fact sometimes she s actually pulled documents out of her filing system to sew what we did in the past. francesca was one that i actually facebooked her when the opportunity came, because i knew that she would be a great addition. and i ve worked with her in the past. vince courtney is my brother in the unions, and he really has helped us roll out the water system improvement program, and reach out to labor. and so all three of them have been significant in the advancement of the puc. and i don t know if we can keep moving the way that we re moving without all three of them. so thank you. chair kim: thank you, mr. kelly. good afternoon, supervisors. phil ginsberg, general manager of the park and rec department. the fact that he has so many people here, both from labor and management, from public power, and public parks, from the south side of the city and the north
different languages. but i m all ears. chair kim: thank you. hopefully your union will be helpful on getting the word out in our communities because i know many of your members live in san francisco which i very much appreciate. thank you. i don t see any other questions from committee members. at this time we will open it up for public comment items 2, 3, and 4. iei have speaker cards, espanola jackson, al jen son, winerub, ana al frer alvarez. if you would like to speak for one, two, or three individuals, feel free to do that. espanola jackson, and my card says 2, 3, and 4. if you look at it. you know, in your question that commissioners, one of the things that i didn t hear brought up was about solar, because puc was the first agency and i think i was its first customer, to make sure that i got solar on my home. i think that not only them working with you, but you have other city departments that they should be working with. you make sure that they work with. because