Eric Zarate
call center worker/full-time student
“No. There’s something about it. It’s cloudy, and it tastes funny.”
David Roude
Primus Labs worker
“Yes. The city treats it well, and it always comes up clean.”
Mark Pearse
mechanic
“I don’t have any distrust in the city’s water. It tastes better than Golden State water.”
Cat Park
help desk receptionist at Hancock College
“Yes. I worked at McKenzie Junior High, and Jeff Foote’s science class tested local water in the Santa Maria Valley; [the] water tested OK for drinking.”
This article appears in Dec 11-18, 2014.