The Color of Drinking Water: Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Safe Drinking Water Act Compliance

2017/08/24 by David Switzer, Manuel P. Teodoro · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Environmental Justice and Health Disparities

paper · doi:10.5942/jawwa.2017.109.0128

openalex publication_date 2017/08/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

Abstract

National utility data show Safe Drinking Water Act violations are greater in low‐income communities with higher black and Hispanic populations.

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