Residents and business owners keep their water in storage tanks, including some perched atop historic redwood water towers. Because of the pandemic and stay-at-home orders, there were few visitors last year when town residents began noticing their wells were producing less. For now, Mendocino residents are relying on people like Brian Clark, who has been selling water from his well outside town and trucking it in. Clark, a longtime resident, said Mendocino hasn’t had such water storage issues since the 1970s when California faced the most severe drought on record. Officials are also asking the state to help finance the bigger private tanks, Rhoades said.

Source: ABC News August 10, 2021 04:07 UTC