"DINUBA — Growing up in Mexico, Maria Rodriguez remembers hauling water from a stream to the shack where her parents and their nine children lived. Indoor plumbing was not an option.

Decades later, she lives in a modest home, nestled amid lush peach orchards and vineyards in northern Tulare County. It is the dream she shared with the love of her life, Manuel, and their three children.

But her private well went dry in May. Suddenly, Maria, 64, is reliving her childhood, hauling water from barrels outside."

Mark Grossi reports for the Fresno Bee September 6, 2014. [2]