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Here s why that s a public health problem
By Asher Rosinger, Penn StateThe Conversation
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Imagine seeing a news report about lead contamination in drinking water in a community that looks like yours. It might make you think twice about whether to drink your tap water or serve it to your kids – especially if you also have experienced tap water problems in the past.
In a new study, my colleagues Anisha Patel, Francesca Weaks and I estimate that approximately 61.4 million people in the U.S. did not drink their tap water as of 2017-2018. Our research, which was released in preprint format on April 8, 2021, and has not yet been peer reviewed, found that this number has grown sharply in the past several years.
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In the journal Nature Food, researchers from the University of Michigan and Tulane University present a “water scarcity footprint” that measures the water-use impacts of U.S. diets, taking into account regional variations in water scarcity. Image credit: Dave Brenner, U-M School for Environment and Sustainability
A lot of attention has been paid in recent years to the carbon footprint of the foods we eat, with much of the focus on the outsize contribution of meat production and especially beef.
But much less is known about the implications of individual U.S. dietary choices on other environmental concerns, such as water scarcity.
Imagine seeing a news report about lead contamination in drinking water in a community that looks like yours. It might make you think twice about whether to drink your tap water or serve it to your kids – especially if you also have experienced tap water problems in the past.
In a new study, my colleagues Anisha Patel, Francesca Weaks and I estimate that approximately 61.4 million people in the U.S. did not drink their tap water as of 2017-2018. Our research, which was released in preprint format on April 8, 2021, and has not yet been peer reviewed, found that this number has grown sharply in the past several years.
Nearly 60 Million Americans Don’t Drink Their Tap Water, Research Suggests Distrust and disuse of tap water is a public health problem.
This article originally appeared in The Conversation. Asher Rosinger
April 15, 2021
Imagine seeing a news report about lead contamination in drinking water in a community that looks like yours. It might make you think twice about whether to drink your tap water or serve it to your kids – especially if you also have experienced tap water problems in the past.
The number of Americans who don’t drink tap water has increased at an alarmingly high rate since 2013. Photo by Airman 1st Class Alexxis Pons Abascal/US Air Force.
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