Death Valley residents talk about how they deal with extreme heat every day in the summer
Welcome to Boiling Point. I’m Melody Petersen, a reporter on The Times’ climate team, writing the newsletter this week to fill in for my colleague Sammy Roth. California’s Death Valley is famous for being the “hottest place on Earth.” Even without this month’s heat waves, temperatures in July in the national park frequently top 120.
California's drinking water comes from more than 2,900 different community water systems, according to the Environmental Working Group's Tap Water Database. And the water delivered by each of those systems can have surprisingly different trace levels of arsenic and other harmful chemicals. That’s because each draws from different water sources. In 2023, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power — which serves about 4 million people — sourced its tap water from the L.A.
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