We are proud to share a new report, Policy Innovations to Secure Drinking Water for All, in partnership with the US Water Alliance and water leaders across the country. Between fall 2019 and winter 2020, we met with nearly 100 state and Tribal water experts, advocates, and organizers in a series of regional roundtables in Atlanta, Detroit, Sacramento, and Santa Fe to share safe drinking water solutions.
In the US, racial injustice is ingrained in the systems that shape who has safe, clean, and affordable water. Recent reports, such as those by NRDC, the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform, and Coming Clean, as well as DigDeep and US Water Alliance, have underscored how Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color are most likely to live without running water or with toxic tap water as a result of redlining, disinvestment, and other aspects of structural inequity.
