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Living without clean water in Redwood City

Manuel Ortiz Esc ez. Ethnic Media Services.

Mar Garcia lives in Redwood City, in wealthy San Mateo County, with her husband and 2-year-old son in a thousand-year-old house that lacks basic services: running water, electricity and sewage.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the high cost of housing in San Mateo has caused some residents to now have to live in their vehicles; some on the street and others, like Mar, in the