Indoor plumbing not as common as you may think in the U.S.
Digital Reporter
Monday, April 28, 2014, 6:53 PM -
A recent American Community Survey suggests that a mind-boggling 1.6 million Americans -- about 0.5% of the population -- live without indoor plumbing.
Now, you can see where they all live courtesy of an an interactive map put together by the Washington Post.
The colour-coded graphic includes a state-by-state breakdown of the 630,000 U.S. homes that are without hot and cold running water, a flush toilet and bathtub or shower.
"As the map ... shows, there is considerable geographic variation," writes the Washington Post.
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"Counties containing Indian reservations have astonishingly high percentages of households without plumbing -- 14 percent of households in Shannon County, S.D., don't have full plumbing. In Apache County, Ariz., the rate is more than 17 percent. Sparsely-populated census areas in Alaska also have very high percentages."
By the 1950s, indoor plumbing had become a mainstay in Canadian homes.
At the start of the century it was reserved for wealthier families that were typically centered in largely populated areas.
