{"id":454,"date":"2017-08-30T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/significant-racial-ethnic-income-disparities-in-hydration-found-among-u-s-adults\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:22:10","slug":"significant-racial-ethnic-income-disparities-in-hydration-found-among-u-s-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/significant-racial-ethnic-income-disparities-in-hydration-found-among-u-s-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant Racial, Ethnic, Income Disparities In Hydration Found Among U.S. Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nQuick Answer:<\/strong> A Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health study found that almost a third of U.S. adults don’t drink enough water. Black, Hispanic, and lower-income adults face a much higher risk. Why? It’s often because they don’t have good access to clean, safe drinking water, just like we saw in places like Flint, Michigan.\n<\/div>\n

Almost a third of U.S. adults aren’t drinking enough water. A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that poorer adults, Black adults, and Hispanic adults are more likely to be dehydrated than wealthier and white adults.<\/p>\n

The study authors believe a big reason for these differences is that many people just don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. Think about the water problems<\/a> in places like Flint, Michigan- that’s a perfect example.<\/p>\n

This study came out online on July 20, 2017, in the American Journal of Public Health<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Why Clean Water Access Makes a Difference in How We Hydrate<\/h2>\n

It’s pretty clear: if your water isn’t good, you won’t drink it. Public health experts have written a lot about this connection. When people think their tap water is unsafe- or when tests show it’s got lead, nitrates, or germs- they naturally drink less of it. The problem is, bottled water isn’t an easy fix for everyone. Low-income families spend a much bigger chunk of their money on bottled water compared to wealthier households, who might just install a filter at home.<\/p>\n

That’s where point-of-use water treatment comes in. These systems offer a real way to close this gap. Reverse osmosis (RO) systems, for instance, remove over 95% of bad stuff like lead, arsenic, fluoride, nitrates, and many other chemicals. Whole-house carbon filters make water taste better and get rid of chlorine byproducts, which encourages people to drink more tap water instead of sugary drinks.<\/p>\n

More and more, city water utilities in underserved areas are using advanced membrane filters and UV disinfection to clean water right at the source. For homes, small under-sink RO systems now cost as little as $200-$400 installed. This makes high-quality filtered water available to a lot more people. Also, community water kiosks- basically purified water vending machines in areas that lack healthy food options and in low-income neighborhoods- are working well in California, Texas, and Florida. They’re helping more people get safe drinking water.<\/p>\n

To fix hydration inequality, we need two things: cities need to invest in their water systems, and homes need easy access to water treatment. Water treatment companies that work in underserved communities play a direct role in closing the hydration gap the Harvard researchers pointed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly a third of U.S. adults are not hydrated enough, and poorer adults as well as Black and Hispanic adults are at higher risk for poor hydration than wealthi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23,14,24],"tags":[22,37,73],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water-treatment","category-residential-water-filtration-systems","category-reverse-osmosis","category-water-filter","tag-ro","tag-water-filter","tag-water-purifier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88821,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/88821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ampac1.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}