…a piped connection to water in some areas may still be able access clean water — by purchasing purified water from a store, for example, or retrieving water from other…
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…in drinking water: key facts and reporting tips. Plus, research on race and water access in metro areas and five tips for investigating stories on water access, affordability and safety….
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…told now?” Read more about new research on Americans who lack access to piped water in their homes, plus past research on racial inequality and water insecurity in the U.S….
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…drowning,’ ‘secondary,’ and ‘delayed onset of respiratory distress’ should not be used,” according to BMJ Best Practice. Another term used by researchers is “water competency.” Water Safety USA, a roundtable…
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…Harm in the Detroit Water Crisis C.S. Ponder and Mikael Omstedt. Geoforum, July 2019. C.S. Ponder and Mikael Omstedt argue that glaring examples of racial physical violence in cities, such…
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…or plain water. After consuming the water, the participants completed an exercise in which they indicated the likelihood that they would save an extra allowance received each month. Researchers also…
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…observed in the four cities,: Local surface and groundwater supplies are exhausted; water is imported from other basins; recycling of wastewater or stormwater is introduced; and desalination of seawater or…
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In 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan changed its water supply, switching from Lake Huron water piped in from Detroit to its own Flint River. The river water wasn’t properly…
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…the taking of international lands is primarily a means of obtaining freshwater, be it from rainwater, lakes, rivers or aquifers. (In the study, rainwater is referred to as “green water”…
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…of prescriptive water-consumption programs. For example, “summer 1996 water consumption restrictions in Corpus Christi, Texas, including prohibitions on landscape irrigation and car washing, did not prompt statistically significant water savings…
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