Juan Diego Hernandez, 9, bathes at his family's home in Alpaugh. The small farmworker community in California's Central Valley suffers from high levels of arsenic and other contaminates in its water.

Video: Water Crisis in California’s Central Valley from Photographer Matt Black

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“The environment of the Central Valley is reverting to its arid state,” Black says.

Water Crisis in California’s Central Valley from Matt Black on Vimeo.

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