Exploring the invisible water insecurity of water utility shutoffs in Detroit, Michigan

A lack of regular access to clean and safe water sanitation is a persistent problem in many parts the world. Most insecurity studies focus on world's less-industrialized lower-income countries, where delivery infrastructure may never have existed. However, individuals higher-income countries experience invisible insecurity, wherein specific households or despite relative wealth their country. In United States, tends manifest as result homelessness, plumbing facilities, utility shut-offs. Using shut-off dataset from Detroit Water Sewerage Department, we investigate relationship between suite demographic variables rates different neighborhoods throughout Detroit, Michigan. We find that shut-offs are more common areas with Black impoverished. Our findings indicate this links structural disadvantage resulting legacy racism segregation city.