Water Insecurity. Re-print from BEMA Int from 2016. 6-Years and still an issue. Change the paradigm.

Another study or data gathering is not needed.   ACTIONS to solving the TRUE problem are.

BEMA International.  October 2022

1. https://psmag.com/the-next-flint-water-crisis-6436aa92b053#.tpoiqrmcc

A new study suggests a number of minority American neighborhoods are at risk of having

unhealthier water than their white counterparts.

……… The kitchen tap water in majority-black Wake County communities that depend on wells is more than 50 times more likely to contain coliform bacteria — and more than 700 times more likely to contain E. coli — than the municipal water that’s available to majority-white neighborhoods just next door.

……Studies have shown that other majority-white Southern towns have refused to annex surrounding, majority-black neighborhoods and to extend municipal services to them.  The practice is so common that it has a name: underbounding.  Researchers have also documented towns underbounding Hispanic neighborhoods in Texas’ Lower Rio Grande and California’s Central Valley.

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Posted By BEMA to BLACK EMERGENCY MANAGERS ASSOCIATION at 11/21/2016 08:28:00 AM