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John Woodruff

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The purpose of this study was to demonstrate a statistical relationship between ongoing tap water safety violations and the ethnic makeup of the communities they occur in, focused on counties in Indiana. Methodology was designed to validate and reproduce the results of Watered Down Justice, a study conducted for the nonprofit environmental organization Natural Resource Defense Council by Kristi P. Fedinick, et al. This study, which concluded that there is a significant statistical relationship between ongoing unfixed water quality violations and higher than average non-white populations in counties across the United States, laid out a detailed set of criteria for evaluation of ongoing safety violations which were adapted for use in Indiana by this study. Data analysis and visualization was achieved via mixed use of Microsoft Excel and ArcGIS. Data were obtained from publicly available US Census Bureau and Environmental Protection Agency databases.

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Purdue University / 2023

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John Woodruff