MENDOCINO CO., 7/28/26 — Turn on the tap in Elk, Laytonville or Round Valley, and the water comes from a government. Not the county and not a city — there isn’t one. It comes from a water district: a small, single-purpose local government with its own board, its own budget and its own claim on public money, run by people your neighbors elected — on the occasions anyone bothered to run. There are 50 of these special districts in Mendocino County.…
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