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Household water crisis affects millions in the United States

People living in poor neighbourhoods often lack access to running water and plumbing.
Cluttered kitchen with sink but no faucet.

Almost 500,000 US households lack proper plumbing, which includes having a faucet in the sink. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post/Getty

A legacy of environmental injustice has left millions in the United States without access to clean water and hundreds of thousands without proper plumbing.

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Nature 595, 11 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01704-6

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