Sarah Catherine Craig

Documentary Photographer & Radio Journalist

www.sarahcraigmedia.com

Will The Water Come

Location: California + Montana

Nationality: USA

Biography: Sarah Craig is a documentary photographer and multimedia storyteller based in Oakland, CA. A native of Bozeman, MT, she left the mountainous West to attend Vassar College on the East Coast, where she completed a B.A. in Geography. She attended... MORE

The hard-hit Central Valley in California will need decades to recover from depleted groundwater levels from the 2016 drought. At the height of the drought, roughly 2,350 residential wells were bone dry. If you zero in on the exact location of these wells, you may find yourself in a tiny community known as Okieville, roughly half way between San Francisco and LA. Issues of water scarcity or water contamination aren’t anything new for Okieville. But the community's failing wells caught people’s attention outside the area. In their case, things needed to get worse, in order for the chance to get better. This story aired nationally on Marketplace and regionally on KALW in San Francisco. You can read the story online here. It won a SPJ NorCal Award for best Science, Environment and Health reporting in 2018.

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Will The Water Come

Copyright Sarah Catherine Craig 2023

Date of Work Aug 2015 - Feb 2017

Updated May 2018

Topics Documentary, Environment, Immigration, Multimedia, Reporting, Weather

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