{"id":86544,"date":"2024-09-25T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/?p=86544"},"modified":"2024-09-24T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T00:38:09","slug":"united-states-lake-water-quality-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/25092024\/united-states-lake-water-quality-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Finds Lakes in Minority Communities Across the US Are Less Likely to be Monitored"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Advocates and researchers have long known that minority and disadvantaged communities are more likely to settle in areas with low air and water quality and less access to natural resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, new research<\/a> in the United States finds that people of color live near lakes that are monitored for water quality much less frequently than bodies of water near white communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike community green spaces, the subject of many environmental justice studies, \u201cblue spaces\u201d receive less attention. These findings on freshwater lakes come at a time when lakes across the U.S. are experiencing larger and more frequent algae blooms, often caused by agricultural and industrial runoff. Understanding a lake\u2019s water quality is important for residents who use the lake for recreation or as a source of drinking water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReally the takeaway is that, across the [lakes in the] U.S., communities of color are being really undersampled,\u201d said Jessica D\u00edaz V\u00e1zquez, the paper\u2019s lead author, who conducted the research while working at Michigan State University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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