Guardian: Water has its own language in this town. Residents talk about nervous neighbors pulling the hose, or speculate about which houses on a street are on the line. People gripe about how neighbors use tank water to hydrate plants.
That water lingo developed in this rural city of 6,700 mostly poor Latino farm workers should not be surprising. There has been a preoccupation with the stuff that comes from the tap since residents started running out of it.
East Porterville is the epicenter...