Drinking Water
& Sanitation
Access to Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
Most of the Eastern Coachella Valley’s 100+ Polanco communities- California’s largest farmworker mobile home population—lack connection to city water and sewer lines. Contaminated wells provide unsafe drinking water. Pueblo Unido has installed point-of-use Reverse Osmosis water filtration systems in 400+ homes, providing safe drinking water for more than 1,500 Polanco community residents. Pueblo Unido’s Polanco community organizing secured a $23.4 million infrastructure investment—the most significant investment for drinking water in the Eastern Coachella Valley.