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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amy Taxin

Rules aimed at long-contaminated groundwater drive California farmers and residents to court

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Near fields awash with strawberries and greens, Ileana Miranda and her family pay $72 a month to get water piped into their home in a rural California community — and that's before they consume a drop.

They pay to bring it from more than a mile away because the groundwater beneath them has been contaminated with nitrates leached into the soil from years of large-scale farming.

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