Water Insecurity And Population Health: Implications For Health Equity And Policy

Health Affairs October 12, 2023
Lara J. Cushing, Kristin Babson Dobbin, Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, Xinyue Liu, Rachel Morello-Frosch

Water insecurity can have important implications for health and health equity. Achieving universal water security requires strategies to advance access to safe, reliable, affordable drinking water and equitable protection from water-related threats.

KEY POINTS:

• The US has enough water to meet the needs of its residents, but widespread inequalities in access to clean water and sanitation infrastructure undermine human health, and ongoing climate change presents new threats to water security.
• Much of the water and wastewater infrastructure in the US is insufficient and aging. An estimated two million people are without running water and basic indoor plumbing, and more than sixty million people receive drinking water from systems that are out of compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act...

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