Friday, May 20 2011 9:54AM

Residents in Wildomar, California may have limited access to one of the most important resources on earth — water. According to Press-Enterprise, in addition to being unable to drink or cook with well water due to high nitrate levels, residents of the rural community sometimes lose water access for days.

Though residents told the source they enjoy many aspects of their rural community, water is something they cannot live without.

"It's just kind of how it is out here," resident Brad Johnson, told the source during a three-day water outage. "The water will stop running out of the blue. I like living out here, I don't want paved roads or streetlights. But we all need water."

In an effort to acknowledge the dire need for water system services work in the area, the County Water of Riverside has begun to make attempts to receive funding from the California Department of Public Health. The source says the funds would go toward a water treatment system that would directly pump water from the ground to faucets, mitigating the risk of contamination.

Water contamination has been becoming more widespread in the state of California. According to California Watch, recent research revealed that 42 percent of wells in the Central Valley had levels of nitrates that were double the federal drinking standard.