In an unincorporated sliver of Madera County, the drought parched the natural landscape the Sevilla family once reveled in.
, a census-designated place in the same county.
“We’re so inundated,” said Marliez Diaz, water sustainability manager at Self-Help Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that provides emergency services such as water storage tanks and filtration systems across the valley. In 2020, 121 temporary water tanks of 2,500 gallons were installed, 92 new water wells were constructed and 3,033 households received bottled water, according to anPlants withered, and the spacious backyard is now all dirt.
The first inkling of drought for the Sevillas happened in 2019 when the water pressure from their well dropped. Heriberto thought the pump’s motor might need to be replaced, or that maybe a tube broke. He asked five people familiar with wells for a diagnostic, and they all told him he was running out of water.
The shift in life harkened back to Sandra‘s and Heriberto’s childhoods in Mexico, but it came as an unwelcome shock to their four daughters and son.Arianna Sevilla, 5, heads to the kitchen table with a fresh quesadilla made by her mother Sandra.
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