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Access to Public Parks, Drinking Fountains, and Clean Public Drinking Water Across Income Brackets in the Bay Area

Author(s): Eliza Zaroff1, Anna Holmquist2

1. The Bay School of San Francisco 2. University of California Berkeley

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Access to green space and clean drinking water can be unequally distributed in urban spaces, often associated with income inequality. Little is known about public drinking water and green space inequities in the Bay Area. For our study, we…

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Access to green space and clean drinking water can be unequally distributed in urban spaces, often associated with income inequality. Little is known about public drinking water and green space inequities in the Bay Area. For our study, we asked, “How do public park access, drinking fountain access, and the quality of public drinking water differ across income brackets in the Bay Area?” and hypothesized that there would be a significant positive correlation between income and the number of drinking fountains, the number of parks, and drinking fountain water quality. For each Bay Area sub-region, water samples from four drinking fountains from four different ZIP codes were analyzed, and the number of parks and fountains was recorded in relation to income for eight different ZIP codes, resulting in 20 analyzed fountains and 40 analyzed ZIP...

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Version 1.0 - published on 14 Feb 2023 doi:10.25334/B7JQ-6G55 - cite this

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