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Washing your hands is difficult w/out piped water. In our latest research, published in PNAS, we map the social geography of #plumbingpoverty in 50 U.S. cities. Hint: it has everything to do with racialized wealth gaps. Buckle up for a thread.
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"We find that, in the United States, one of the world’s wealthiest nations, an estimated 1,121,100 people (±25,500 margin of error) lacked a household piped water connection between 2013 and 2017—a population roughly the size of San José, California."
We ask: Who (and where) is left behind in the promise of universal water provision? We take the central lesson of Flint—that certain populations are being left behind in water provision—and 'plumb' infrastructural inequality in the top 50 largest US metro areas.
Racism is not just a set of discriminatory actions; racism (and racial capitalism) is hardwired into very #infrastructures of our daily lives, shaping who breezes through life with clean, potable water and who lives without ‘universal’ public services. A thread.
In the Annals of @theAAG, @shiloh_deitz and I explore domestic water provision in the USA and expose its racialized, classed, and political nature. Yep, we do the entire country. We run the @ipums numbers. We make the maps. We bring the facts. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Myth: Public water service is 100% universal in the USA. Fact: Nearly 1.5 million occupied households the US lack complete plumbing (water + sewerage) in their homes. That’s equivalent to the nation’s fifth largest city. A city of the plumbing poor. #waterinsecurity
