Friesen: Central Valley farmworker communities have pesticide-contaminated groundwater
Cody Friesen · HIBT Lab! SOURCE Global: Cody Friesen · Sep 15, 2022 · at 34:34
Cody Friesen, founder and CEO of SOURCE Global, discusses the humanitarian and agricultural water crisis in California's Central Valley with host Guy Raz.
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“The farm workers that live in the Central Valley today live in communities where the groundwater has been poisoned by generations. Of pesticides and fertilizer and so on.”
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