Water is a basic human right and by providing access to safe water, we keep residents in our community safer and healthier, including our residents who are unhoused. As a medical student, I fully support this proposal.
Water is a basic human right! Ensuring that all people living in Sacramento have access to it is vitally important for safeguarding community health and treating people experiencing homelessness with the dignity and respect they deserve.
Water is a human right! As a Sacramento resident and medical student, I strongly support this proposal. Not only is it morally right to providing our unhoused neighbors with better access to clean water to drink and wash, but it also decrease disease transmission in our whole community. Flu, COVID-19, giardia, and norovirus are all very common diseases that can easily be prevented with hand washing. Dehydration and heat stroke are also very common for folks who don’t have reliable access to water. Please take this small step towards providing basic human rights to Sacramento residents living outside.
Clean safe water is necessary for all people. I am a medical student at UC Davis and frequently see patients who suffer needlessly because they do not have the ability to keep themselves, their clothes, or their wounds clean. And many more who experience heat stroke and dehydration during the summer.
While more permanent solutions for housing and sanitation are needed This is a step our city can take to ensure this basic necessity is available to all our community members.
As an encampment outreach worker, I frequently encounter people in Sacramento who do not have reliable access to water. A diversity of solutions is needed- water deliveries such as those provided by SANE, legally allowing hydrant access, and increased water access in public parks are all important strategies.
Water is heavy. Each gallon weighs 8.3 pounds. People experiencing homelessness cannot be expected to carry all of the water they need for hydration and sanitation. Solutions need to account for ease of access and should saturate as many areas of Sacramento as possible to ensure equitable distribution.
There are numerous public health consequences of irregular water access. Dehydration contributes to heat related illnesses and worsens many conditions. Without access to water for sanitation and hand washing, people are more susceptible to illness and infections. When people are forced to drink, cook, and wash with unsafe water sources, they risk serious health consequences. This is a daily reality for people living in encampments.
Finally, people experiencing homelessness should not be criminalized for obtaining water. Currently, people who access water from hydrants risk being charged with Utility Larceny. Criminalization should never be a part of our approach when providing water for people experiencing homelessness.
As a Sacramento resident and a water professional, please support this proposal to provide safe drinking water to our unhoused neighbors. Additionally, please consider this as a stepping stone toward providing better sanitation services (a human right) as well.
As an outreach worker and advocate, I am writing in support of the recommendations to ensure water is available to all Sacramentans, and particularly those who are experiencing homelessness. Living outside is already so hard, and made incomprehensibly worse when basic human needs like water are intentionally withheld. Even at the city-sanctioned camps like Miller Park, clean water can be scarce; I and others have been asked to bring potable water to residents during periods of time when they were only given access to a hose. I have also seen unhoused friends be criminalized for trying to access water (for no other reason than that they are thirsty!). This is unconscionable to me. During a time of increased attacks on our unhoused neighbors, I am relieved to see that there are some in our city government who are proposing humane ideas to address their basic survival needs and I urge you all to do the right thing and free the water.
The Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness is in full support of the recommendations to provide water to ouir unhoused neighbors in Sacramento City and County. We hav over 10,000 people experiencing homelessness in our community and over 70% are outside due to lack of shelter and affordable housing, which means they often lack access to safe, clean water both for drinking and for showering. As you know, in 2021 California declared a "human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water," a right that has gone unrealized not only for almost 200,000 people experiencing homelessness in CA but also for extremely low-income people in CA. Your actions in support of this agenda item is a small step in realizing this human right to water in our community for our unhoused neighbors and hopefully will be a precedent for other counties to follow suit. I urge you to support providing water - both for drinking and sanitation- to people experiencing homelessness in our
community.
Support both the concept in general and specifically the fourth option of increasing drinking/water refill stations across parks and city facilities as an amenity for everyone to use.
One potential funding source could be the CalRecycle grant below that is due in January that calls out water refill stations as an eligible use. (Sacramento may already use our annual funds on waste programs, but a conversation worth having)
In support, I know cause I'm a caregiver,but I would have grown much better if I had more availability of this resource, having lived in East Yolo and south of the border.
Water is a basic human right and by providing access to safe water, we keep residents in our community safer and healthier, including our residents who are unhoused. As a medical student, I fully support this proposal.
Our neighbors deserve to access clean water without facing criminalization. I fully support this proposal!
Water is a basic human right! Ensuring that all people living in Sacramento have access to it is vitally important for safeguarding community health and treating people experiencing homelessness with the dignity and respect they deserve.
Water is indispensable in maintaining public health and safety for ALL Sacramento residents.
I fully support providing water to people experiencing homeslessness.
Water is a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT!!!!
Water is a human right! As a Sacramento resident and medical student, I strongly support this proposal. Not only is it morally right to providing our unhoused neighbors with better access to clean water to drink and wash, but it also decrease disease transmission in our whole community. Flu, COVID-19, giardia, and norovirus are all very common diseases that can easily be prevented with hand washing. Dehydration and heat stroke are also very common for folks who don’t have reliable access to water. Please take this small step towards providing basic human rights to Sacramento residents living outside.
Enthusiastically support access to clean water for our houseless neighbors.
Clean safe water is necessary for all people. I am a medical student at UC Davis and frequently see patients who suffer needlessly because they do not have the ability to keep themselves, their clothes, or their wounds clean. And many more who experience heat stroke and dehydration during the summer.
While more permanent solutions for housing and sanitation are needed This is a step our city can take to ensure this basic necessity is available to all our community members.
As an encampment outreach worker, I frequently encounter people in Sacramento who do not have reliable access to water. A diversity of solutions is needed- water deliveries such as those provided by SANE, legally allowing hydrant access, and increased water access in public parks are all important strategies.
Water is heavy. Each gallon weighs 8.3 pounds. People experiencing homelessness cannot be expected to carry all of the water they need for hydration and sanitation. Solutions need to account for ease of access and should saturate as many areas of Sacramento as possible to ensure equitable distribution.
There are numerous public health consequences of irregular water access. Dehydration contributes to heat related illnesses and worsens many conditions. Without access to water for sanitation and hand washing, people are more susceptible to illness and infections. When people are forced to drink, cook, and wash with unsafe water sources, they risk serious health consequences. This is a daily reality for people living in encampments.
Finally, people experiencing homelessness should not be criminalized for obtaining water. Currently, people who access water from hydrants risk being charged with Utility Larceny. Criminalization should never be a part of our approach when providing water for people experiencing homelessness.
As a Sacramento resident and a water professional, please support this proposal to provide safe drinking water to our unhoused neighbors. Additionally, please consider this as a stepping stone toward providing better sanitation services (a human right) as well.
As an outreach worker and advocate, I am writing in support of the recommendations to ensure water is available to all Sacramentans, and particularly those who are experiencing homelessness. Living outside is already so hard, and made incomprehensibly worse when basic human needs like water are intentionally withheld. Even at the city-sanctioned camps like Miller Park, clean water can be scarce; I and others have been asked to bring potable water to residents during periods of time when they were only given access to a hose. I have also seen unhoused friends be criminalized for trying to access water (for no other reason than that they are thirsty!). This is unconscionable to me. During a time of increased attacks on our unhoused neighbors, I am relieved to see that there are some in our city government who are proposing humane ideas to address their basic survival needs and I urge you all to do the right thing and free the water.
The Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness is in full support of the recommendations to provide water to ouir unhoused neighbors in Sacramento City and County. We hav over 10,000 people experiencing homelessness in our community and over 70% are outside due to lack of shelter and affordable housing, which means they often lack access to safe, clean water both for drinking and for showering. As you know, in 2021 California declared a "human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water," a right that has gone unrealized not only for almost 200,000 people experiencing homelessness in CA but also for extremely low-income people in CA. Your actions in support of this agenda item is a small step in realizing this human right to water in our community for our unhoused neighbors and hopefully will be a precedent for other counties to follow suit. I urge you to support providing water - both for drinking and sanitation- to people experiencing homelessness in our
community.
Support both the concept in general and specifically the fourth option of increasing drinking/water refill stations across parks and city facilities as an amenity for everyone to use.
One potential funding source could be the CalRecycle grant below that is due in January that calls out water refill stations as an eligible use. (Sacramento may already use our annual funds on waste programs, but a conversation worth having)
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/bevcontainer/grants/citycounty/fy202324/
In support, I know cause I'm a caregiver,but I would have grown much better if I had more availability of this resource, having lived in East Yolo and south of the border.