Timothy Brewer on limiting health risks by closing the water gap | Sustainable LA Grand Challenge

Katerina Jowid
June 28, 2022
SLAGC News and Events

Publication: Newsy

UCLA Expert: Timothy Brewer: Professor of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health; Division of Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine

Synopsis: Closing the water access gap would also mean lowering the risk of health-related implications in the U.S., Brewer said.

UCLA News: “We think of things like cryptosporidium, giardia, campylobacter. So, it can make it incredibly hard to go to work,” noted Brewer. “The potential risk and addition to toxin exposures and infections is probably in things like arsenic or other heavy metals, mercury.”