When Reina Cervantes Trejo heard the truck, gears grinding as it climbed the street to her house, she rushed outside.
“Thanks to our good Lord!” she said. “The water has finally arrived!”
Cervantes and her husband hurried to help the driver, Fredy Romero, as he yanked hoses from the truck to fill up a cistern and a hodgepodge of plastic buckets, pails and kitchen pots the couple had assembled on their patio.
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