How we personally relate to water matters. So does taking a look at the bigger pic 🖼️ When we step back to take a l👀k at the patterns, we can spot the larger, systemic issues we need to tackle.
A new, 6-month investigation 👓 from the guardian looking at 5 yrs of Environmental Protection Agency epagov data shows that “millions of people in the U.S. are drinking water that fails to meet federal health standards, including by violating limits for dangerous contaminants,” and that “Latinos are disproportionately exposed.”🚰
The investigation adds to a whole body of research 📚 highlighting how “access to clean drinking water is highly unequal in the US, based on race, income and geography.”
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📸🎨 by Ricardo Santos
dat.rs and maxwhittaker
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