Nationwide geospatial analysis of county racial and ethnic composition and public drinking water arsenic and uranium

Irene Martinez-Morata; Benjamin C. Bostick; Otakuye Conroy-Ben; Dustin T. Duncan; Miranda R. Jones; Maya Spaur; Kevin P. Patterson; Seth J. Prins; Ana Navas-Acien; Anne E. Nigra

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35185-6

Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Nationwide geospatial analysis of county racial and ethnic composition and public drinking water arsenic and uranium

Irene Martinez-Morata,
Benjamin C. Bostick,
Otakuye Conroy-Ben,
Dustin T. Duncan,
Miranda R. Jones,
Maya Spaur,
Kevin P. Patterson,
Seth J. Prins,
Ana Navas-Acien,
Anne E. Nigra

Affiliations

Irene Martinez-Morata: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Benjamin C. Bostick: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Otakuye Conroy-Ben: School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University
Dustin T. Duncan: Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Miranda R. Jones: Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Maya Spaur: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Kevin P. Patterson: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Seth J. Prins: Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Ana Navas-Acien: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Anne E. Nigra: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35185-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Environmental justice and drinking water in the US: Higher proportions of Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaskan Native, and non-Hispanic Black residents were associated with higher public water arsenic and uranium at the county-level, findings differed by region.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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