claim: "there are tens of thousands of homes right here in california where you turn on the faucet but you can't drink the water."
author: bernie sanders
evidence_1: politifact global news service on friday, september 23rd, 2016. half-true. it  could be hundreds of thousands. consumer safety · bernie sanders · "there are  tens of thousands of homes right here in california where you turn on the faucet  but you can't drink the water." — politifact national on tuesday, june 14th, 2016.
evidence_2: jul 14, 2015 ... welcome to fairmead, california, where you have to walk a mile for a sip of  water ... mostly low-income, they spend tens or even hundreds of dollars each  month on drinking water, and many dollars more on gas to drive their cars out of  town to someplace where the ... “there's no faucets to turn on, honey.
evidence_3: dec 16, 2009 ... only 91 contaminants are regulated by the safe drinking water act, yet more  than 60,000 chemicals are used within the united states , according to ... but they  have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying  to protect, who say that if their water is legal it must be safe.
evidence_4: jan 27, 2016 ... you may not know whether your water comes from lead pipes. your city may not  know, either. but you're on the hook for the cost of replacing those toxic pipes  even if the city's underground operations put your drinking water more at risk.
evidence_5: jun 24, 2013 ... the most harmful ingredients can't be seen. the groundwater underlying seville,  like that beneath dozens of small towns throughout the central valley -- the 50-by -400-mile agricultural basin, home to 4 million people, that effectively separates  coastal california from the sierra nevada -- has long borne the ...