People in the nation’s richest strawberry-growing region have lacked safe drinking water for decades. A Biden administration grant promised them a clean, climate-resilient drinking water system. Trump took it away.By Liza GrossMOSS LANDING, Calif.—Vernon Trindade learned the water from the well he was digging wasn’t safe to drink around 1985 when he and his wife were building a live-work space with enough room for a wood shop, two painters’ studios and his nine-foot canvases. Trindade, a master woodworker and abstract painter with shoulder-length gray hair and a beard, built the house from the ground up with his wife on an acre lot in Moss Landing, looking out across strawberry fields to Monterey Bay.
Observations from the Little Bunker
Last updated: August 18, 2025 04:13 PM
Atmospheric CO₂
425.4 ppm
+18.4
ppm/year
Atmospheric CH₄
1934.91 ppb
+9.11
ppb/year
Global Temperature
+1.48 °C
Peak: +1.73°C
World Population
8.1 billion
+67
million/year