A young boy washes his hands.
A young boy washes his hands.
Photo by iStockphoto.com/MoyoStudio

How can you wash your hands if you don’t have water?

That’s the dilemma faced by people across the US whose water has been shut off during the COVID-19 pandemic.

No one knows exactly how many people are living without water in this country. But a 2018 assessment from Food and Water Watch put the figure at about one in 20 Americans — approximately 15 million people.

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