Like many things, access to clean water falls along racial lines.
More than 2 million Americans are living without running water, indoor plumbing or wastewater treatment, according to a new study.
"Access to clean, reliable running water and safe sanitation are baseline conditions for health, prosperity, and well-being," DigDeep CEO George McGraw and US Water Alliance CEO Radhika Fox said in a."However, they remain out of reach for some of the most vulnerable people in the United States." Native American homes like this one are 19 times more likely to lack access to complete plumbing, according to a joint report by national nonprofits DigDeep and the US Water Alliance.Fifty-eight out of every 1,000 Native American households lack complete plumbing, as opposed to three out of every 1,000 white households. For African-Americans, 0.5 percent of households lacked complete plumbing, nearly twice as many as white homes.
Water-access challenges affect entire communities, not just"isolated individuals choosing to live off the grid," the authors wrote. The researchers found clustered water problems in Alaska, New Mexico, the Dakotas and Maine, in addition to their focus on six"hotspots": California's Central Valley, the Navajo Nation, Texas colonias, the rural South, Appalachia and Puerto Rico.
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