Black and Hispanic people and those living in low-income Texas communities are highly concerned about the quality of their drinking water, a new survey shows.
’s list of 30 priority bills includes one to address Texas’ future water needs. The details of the bill are not yet available.— cheap plots of land outside city limits that are without basic infrastructure such as water and sewage systems, electricity and paved roads. Some 840,000 mostly low-income Latinos live in colonias along the U.S.
“We were used to having regular water in Ciudad Juárez where we lived, so it was very different to come here and not be able to trust our drinking water,” Martínez said in Spanish. “There’s no company that finds it profitable to come into these communities and provide low-cost filtration units,” said Ivonne Santiago, an engineering professor at UT-El Paso who has worked in El Paso colonias for more than a decade. “So this is really a dream come true.”
But Gugliuzza added that historically underserved communities do have greater distrust of their water. A nationalfound that while 75% of white Americans trust their tap water, only about 65% of Black and Hispanic Americans trust their water.
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