Map Reveals America’s Most Vulnerable Drinking Water Utilities

Map reveals America’s most vulnerable drinking water utilities

New index shows 67 million Americans rely on high‑risk water systems as climate threats outpace utilities’ disclosures.

Why Is a Showerhead Company Telling Us Our Water Is Poisoned?

Photo by Robert Guss on UnsplashA story this week in Newsweek caught my eye. It highlights another map of the U.S. with all the drinking water violations. See the map here. It’s not the data that’s surprising it’s the fact that Afina, a company that sells filtered showerheads, just released the study. Sure, they want to sell more filters, but this kind of data should be available to all of us. It’s public health info. The study reveals that West…

Map Reveals America's Most Vulnerable Drinking Water Utilities

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed what they describe as the first publicly accessible Drinking Water Utilities Climate Risk Index for the U.S., a tool designed to measure how prepared water systems are for worsening climate extremes. Their findings, now published in…