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Then the pandemic hit. Bell-Holt’s household swelled from five to 12, as she took in laid-off children, several friends and her toddler grandson. Monthly utilities swelled to over $2,000.
That meant trade-offs. She stayed current on the $2,700 rent. As before, she sent regular but partial utility payments: $500 here, $1,000 there. She used December stimulus payments to shrink the debt by $2,000.
Bell-Holt lives in the epicenter of California’s water debt crisis. While average debt is $500, at least 155,000 households mostly in Los Angeles owe over $1,000.
In her ZIP code, nearly half of households have water debt. Of those, one fifth owe more than $1,000.
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This is Eileen Wray-McCann for Circle of Blue. And this is What’s Up with Water, your “need-to-know news” of the world’s water, made possible by support from people like you.
In the United States, environmental, health, and civic groups have sued the federal government, claiming that revised rules for lead in drinking water are not strong enough to protect health. In late December, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized the rule revisions. According to MLive, the groups filing the lawsuits oppose many of the new drinking water rules, but they are especially concerned about the timelines for eliminating lead pipes. They argue that utilities are allowed too many years to remove a major source of lead in drinking water. One lawsuit was filed by Earthjustice and includes the NAACP and United Parents Against Lead. A second lawsuit was filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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A statewide survey indicates that low-income households and communities of color are most affected by overdue water bills that have climbed during the pandemic, further hurting those who were already in financial distress.
Belan Ruia makes every drop of water count as she washes dishes in April 2015 in her East Porterville, California, home. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue
By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue
Household water-bill debt in California has soared in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, worsening a water affordability crisis that has hit the state’s low-income residents and communities of color the hardest.
A survey by the state’s water regulator estimates that about 1.6 million households have a combined water debt of $1 billion, which is growing by about $100 million each month. The State Water Resources Control Board also found that 155,000 households are deep in debt, owing more than $1,000 to their water departments. Many of those deep-debt households are
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