- [Voiceover] This is probably every bit as bad
as the Napa earthquake, you just don't see it.
- [Voiceover] This problem is not
going to be resolved, you know?
- I think this is kind of like a slow thing.
Almost like a disease, it kind of takes over.
It's slow.
You don't see it until it starts just taking hold.
- [Voiceover] Last year was actually the driest year ever
in recorded history in California.
- [Voiceover] But nature had not provided water
down in the valley.
Millions of acres would have remained a barren waste
if the men who settled this part of the valley
had not used their knowledge and strength.
They dug wells.
- Wells, wells.
- People's wells are going dry.
That's never occurred before.
- When I started going door to door,
I realized what terrible conditions people were living in
because of lack of water.
So, I got donations, and my husband and I
also bought some water and started helping people.
This is Lupe.
- Sometimes I was so thirsty.
And I just find this angel in the middle of the desert.
- I don't know whether I'm an angel.
- Yeah, you are.
And she offered me...
Me and my neighbors, we are getting drinking water
because of Ms. Donna.
- These showers right here have not only the shower,
but they have toilets inside.
This is for the handicapped.
We have two units right here.
We have 24 units over there.
A week ago they say 596 homes without any water,
but on a daily basis you hear of another well that went dry.
- I leave the bucket in the sun.
So I take the shower right there,
in the middle of my yard.
Because my kids, they already grown up.
I have three sons.
Some, two are in the military service.
So, helping us to guard our country.
President Obama sent lots of water and food
for other countries.
What about us?
We are in the same country.
We need the help too.
We need the help.
In city council, I went to ask them for help,
and they said, no lady.
They told me, Ms. Beltran, she said no
because you don't have cancer or you don't have any disease.
- Do to the drought, parents have no jobs.
This is a farming community.
If there's no water, nobody's farming.
Most of these people are either unemployed right now
or will be unemployed pretty soon.
- The federal government has done nothing
really at this point.
This is a natural disaster,
and it needs to be treated as such, and it hasn't been.
- Please don't lose hope.
Things are going to get better.
And for those that are listening,
if you could help different organizations or myself
get more supplies to people, I would be really grateful,
and most of all, the people are grateful
because they realize each time you come
and say people care, that people care,
that they're not forgotten.