OKLAHOMA CITY  — Water service was cut off to an estimated 1.4 million people living in more than a half-a-million American Households that got behind on their bills two years ago, as some struggled to keep up with rising costs and governments didn’t do enough to help, a group contends in a first-of-its-kind study released Wednesday.

Food & Water Watch, a Washington-based nonprofit that advocates for affordable and safe food and water for everyone, made public requests for 2016 residential shut-off records from the two biggest water suppliers in each state and received the information from 73 of them.

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