Safe drinking water for millions of Americans is threatened by majority rule

July 2018

Millions of Americans are being denied a basic human right: access to safe water. Why? Because improvements to water supply systems are almost exclusively focused on major urban centers at the expense of smaller towns and cities where they are needed the most.

We must stop taking such a majoritarian approach to something as rudimentary as water supply, especially when inexpensive, reliable solutions already exist that could dramatically improve living conditions for many.