Last month, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their 2024 Water Affordability Needs Assessment Report. Research from professor Diego Cardoso played a pivotal role in shaping the EPA's Water Affordability Needs Assessment report to Congress, which found that 12.1-19.2 million U.S. households lack affordable water access. The EPA incorporated novel methods for household-level affordability analysis developed by Diego Cardoso and Casey Wichman as well as their published dataset and procedures for matching water rates to census demographic data. Based on this analysis, the EPA recommends establishing a federal water assistance program to help alleviate the financial burden faced by households and utilities nationwide.
Read more on the EPA's Water Affordability website...