Borrego Springs, California, was founded on the promise of endless water. Now they must conserve — or else.
Worth of Water
The Worth of Water is an hcn.org series that explores the people and places affected by the current drought in California. Videographer Zoë Meyers looks at the policies, ideas and environmental factors at play. Find out more about drought in the West here.
Residents explain why the new drought program may or may not work for them.
This master-planned community must keep building to survive, despite the drought.
Checking in with a farmer who traded some of his water for long term survival.
Surface water projects give groundwater a break, in the state's fourth year of severe drought.
This rural community couldn't drink the water, even if they had it.
The drought is not an abstract threat for families in Porterville, California.