Nitrate, Arsenic, and the Long Wait for Safe Water in Central Fresno Nearly 100 people crowded into a meeting room in central Fresno last year when state water officials hosted a public session on drinking water quality. Many had discovered notices at their community centers explainin

For years, experts in the American West have predicted that, unless the steady overuse of water was brought under control, the Colorado River would no longer be able to support all of the 40 million people who depend on it. Over the past two decades, Western states took incremental steps to save wat