Despite the central importance of water for human wellbeing and development, researchers
and practitioners have few tools to quantitatively measure, assess, and compare the scope …

Green infrastructure designed to address urban drainage and water quality issues is often
deployed without full knowledge of potential unintended social, ecological, and human …

There is no safe level of exposure to inorganic arsenic or uranium, yet recent studies
identified sociodemographic and regional inequalities in concentrations of these frequently …

This article reconsiders the epistemic and geographic boundaries that have long separated
scholarship on urban water poverty and politics in the Global North and South. We stage an …

This article interrogates the “anomalous” case of Black-founded towns, so-called because of
their relative absence from discourse on Black place, their unique struggles for self …

With this article, we develop the Drinking Water Disparities Framework to explain
environmental injustice in the context of drinking water in the United States. The framework …

Background: In the United States, nationwide estimates of public drinking water arsenic
exposure are not readily available. We used the US Environmental Protection Agency's …

Objectives. To examine drinking water quality in majority Black periurban neighborhoods in
Wake County, North Carolina, that are excluded from nearby municipal water service and to …

Background: Evidence suggests that the 44.5 million US residents drawing their drinking
water from private wells face higher risks of waterborne contaminant exposure than those …

Escherichia coli are fecal indicator bacteria that reach waterbodies through aging and failing
infrastructure in cities. Exposure to pathogens in untreated sewage can result in …