Inequities in Drinking Water Quality Among Domestic Well Communities and Community Water Systems, California, 2011‒2019.
Objectives. To evaluate universal access to clean drinking water by characterizing relationships between community sociodemographics and water contaminants in California domestic well areas (DWAs) and community water systems (CWSs). Methods. We integrated domestic well locations, CWS service boundar...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 112; no. 1; pp. 88 - 98 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=154272961&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 154272961 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00900036 APH jtl: American Journal of Public Health issn: 00900036 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan2022 vid: 112 iid: 1 pid: 44 pub: American Public Health Association artinfo: ui: 154272961 10.2105/ajph.2021.306561 ppf: 88 ppct: 10 formats: tig: atl: Inequities in Drinking Water Quality Among Domestic Well Communities and Community Water Systems, California, 2011‒2019. aug: au: Pace, Clare Balazs, Carolina Bangia, Komal Depsky, Nicholas Renteria, Adriana Morello-Frosch, Rachel Cushing, Lara J. su: Equality Socioeconomic factors Drinking water quality Water distribution Wells Arsenic analysis Nitrate analysis Chromium analysis sug: subj: Equality Socioeconomic factors Water Supply and Irrigation Systems Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction Drinking water quality Water distribution Wells Arsenic analysis Nitrate analysis Chromium analysis ab: Objectives. To evaluate universal access to clean drinking water by characterizing relationships between community sociodemographics and water contaminants in California domestic well areas (DWAs) and community water systems (CWSs). Methods. We integrated domestic well locations, CWS service boundaries, residential parcels, building footprints, and 2013–2017 American Community Survey data to estimate sociodemographic characteristics for DWAs and CWSs statewide. We derived mean drinking and groundwater contaminant concentrations of arsenic, nitrate, and hexavalent chromium (Cr[VI]) between 2011 and 2019 and used multivariate models to estimate relationships between sociodemographic variables and contaminant concentrations. Results. We estimated that more than 1.3 million Californians (3.4%) use domestic wells and more than 370 000 Californians rely on drinking water with average contaminant concentrations at or above regulatory standards for 1 or more of the contaminants considered. Higher proportions of people of color were associated with greater drinking water contamination. Conclusions. Poor water quality disproportionately impacts communities of color in California, with the highest estimated arsenic, nitrate, and Cr(VI) concentrations in areas of domestic well use. Domestic well communities must be included in efforts to achieve California's Human Right to Water. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(1):88–97. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306561) pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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