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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Perkins

White House rescinds $20m for clean water in pesticide-contaminated rural California

Farm workes pick strawberries
Farm workers pick strawberries in the Salinas valley in California. Photograph: Bob Kreisel/Alamy

For decades, thousands of residents in California’s agricultural heartland couldn’t use their wells because the water was too contaminated with pesticides. In December, the Biden administration stepped in with a long-awaited $20m grant to provide clean water, improve municipal sources and relieve the region’s financial and health burden.

The Trump administration just took the money away.

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