Dec 2020: Non-profit Dig Deep and the U.S. Water Alliance released a study last year showing that more than two million people in the U.S. lack access to running water. Even in the wealthiest country on the planet, the share of households that will face unaffordable water bills is expected to skyrocket to 36% from 12% over the next five years, according to a 2017 analysis published in the journal PLOS One, due to an “increasing strain on water prices” brought on by the climate crisis, water quality, and other factors. Indigenous rights defender and journalist Ruth H. Hopkins tweeted that in addition to rising global temperatures and the prevalence of drought—which affected nearly half of the continental U.S. this fall, in the most widespread drought the country has seen since 2013—water supply is negatively affected by fossil fuel projects which “continue to poison it.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/07/future-we-are-looking-wall-street-begin-betting-water-scarcity
