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Water stays in the pipes longer in shrinking cities – a challenge for public health

  • Written by Nancy Love, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
Water stays in the pipes longer in shrinking cities – a challenge for public healthHow long has that water already been in the system?mike.irwin/Shutterstock.com

The geographic locations where Americans live are shifting in ways that can negatively affect the quality of their drinking water.

Cities that experience long-term, persistent population decline are called shrinking cities. Although shrinking cities exist across the...

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