Governmental policies and programs that allocate water based on socioeconomic status contribute to the structural forces that negatively impact the health of poor individuals. Without clean water, an individual is at risk for infection both from ingesting unsafe water and from lack of personal hygiene. Equitable provision of clean water is the most basic of public health services that governments are responsible for.
Water engineers in monsoon Mumbai
Control what neighborhoods get water when
The trickle in poor hoods is minimal
Dripping drip dripping out of leaky pipes
In the grid the engineers don’t wanna lid
In secret they’ll signal the wasted liquid
Is sufficient to supply all people
Sadly their million dollar idea?
Is to dam yet another damn river
while the drip dripping pipes go undamed
Common people do not mind paying for
Water that flows like a serene spring
It is foolish to expect payment when
Water trickles today, skips tomorrow
Are victims to blame for stealing water for their woes?
Zonia Moore is an MS1 at the Perelman School of Medicine. Zonia can be reached by email at [email protected].
