"pushed more households into situations of plumbing poverty as people end up in housing without secure or reliable running water." What does it mean to live without running water? Some households ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to ...

The research also found that people of color were disproportionally affected by a lack of household water, a situation defined by the authors as "plumbing poverty," in 12 of the 15 largest cities.

New York City is the water poverty capital of the United States, according to a study citing census data, with 56,900 residents living without access to running water in 2021. In second place was ...

The idea of a Water Poverty Index (WPI) with a numerical value was formulated by scientists in an effort to express the complex relationship between sustainable water resource management and poverty ...

Almost one million pensioner households in England and Wales could be living in water poverty by 2029/2030 unless the Government and water providers take urgent action, according to research by ...

What the researchers call "plumbing poverty" was once a problem in mostly rural areas, but is increasingly found in U.S. cities such as Portland, Oregon; Phoenix, Houston, and New York, they found.