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Coachella Valley farmworkers demand clean water

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 8, 2009 at 6:32 am

From MyDesert.com:

Fed up with broken promises from valley lawmakers, a handful of farmworkers petitioned state and federal legislators on Tuesday for the most basic of services: clean, safe drinking water and sewer systems.

These farmworkers, who live in some of the Coachella Valley’s most dilapidated mobile home parks, delivered more than 300 letters from residents to Sen. Denise Ducheny, D-San Diego; Assemblyman Manual Perez, D-Coachella; Riverside County Supervisor Roy Wilson; and Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Palm Springs.

“These are not ribbon-cutting projects,” said Sergio Carranza, founder and executive director of Pueblo Unido, a community development organization formed in 2008. “They are basically trying to address these very basic needs,” he said. “Now we’re putting a human face to this issue.”

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July 8, 2009 · Filed Under Coachella Valley

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