…of the opportunity costs of paying water and sewer bills.” One big idea Teodoro proposes to address water affordability in the U.S. is to consolidate water utilities. Large water systems…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email On April 25, 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan, changed its municipal water supply source from the Detroit-supplied water coming from Lake Huron to the…
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…waters,” according to a 2015 Environmental Protection Agency guidance document for community water systems serving under 1,000 people. As of 2016, the federal government no longer requires that water systems…
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…Household Water Insecurity in the Global North: A Critical Review Katie Meehan, et. al. WIREs Water, October 2020. The authors dispel the myth of “modern water,” the idea that water…
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…homes are 61% more likely to lack complete plumbing than those who own their homes, find the authors of the new paper, “Geographies of Insecure Water Access and the Housing–Water…
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…Water Safety USA, a roundtable of several national nonprofit and governmental organization with a focus on drowning prevention and water safety programs, defines water competency as the ability to anticipate,…
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…23,200 households had their water shut off, and 27,552 households lost their water in 2016. Ponder and Omstedt call it “financial whitewashing,” with the department focusing on delinquent accounts rather…
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…pattern of water development was 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;…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email 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….
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…referred to as “green water” and irrigation water as “blue water.”) For the purpose of the study, land grabbing — which is inextricably linked to gaining water rights — is…
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