LOS BANOS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – On Tuesday, a group of Los Banos firefighters delivered a truck-load of bottled water to community members living in a parking lot homeless encampment.

Los Banos water sample results from March show that the city’s water is now non-compliant under recently changed state standards.

Los Banos Enterprise columnist Diana Ingram-Thurston writes about how water and land shaped the Los Banos region years ago and today.