The Huffington Post (August 28, 2014) - Residents of a poor Central California community relying on bottled water after their wells ran dry paint a grim picture of what could happen across the state as the record-breaking drought continues to plague the West. In conditions this extreme, scattered, rural areas such as East Porterville will be the earliest communities affected, UC Davis professor and Center for Watershed Sciences Director Jay Lund told HuffPost.