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These U.S. states have the best and the worst tap water: Kentucky ranked No. 1 while Alabama came in dead last

www.cnbc.com These U.S. states have the best and the worst tap water: Kentucky ranked No. 1 while Alabama came in dead last

In June, J.D. Power ranked the states with the best and worst tap water based quality, reliability, conservation and more.

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10 U.S. states with the worst tap water:

Alabama

Maryland

Oklahoma

New Mexico

Texas

Pennsylvania

Ohio

Mississippi

Arizona

Indiana
- Goddamn it of course Ohio is on this list.
  
  I need to get outta this state. 😂
  
  Just means you're building up an immunity to lead and arsenic 💪😤
  
  -from a 2nd worst tap water resident
  
  I think a large part of why Ohio is so bad is because we don't run city water very far outside of any city. That and the well water quality suffers from higher sulfur content in many parts of the state.
- WHOOOOO Oklahoma #3! Let's go, let's go, we can do it! We can be the #1 worst! Yeeaaahhh!
  
  People always told me to be proud of "my state" but now they're (imaginarily) looking at me like I've done something wrong. Weird. Anyway, halp, get me outta here v.v
- Always got sick drinking straight from the tap in texas.
  
  Make sure you filter that shit.
From the article, 10 U.S. states with the best tap water:

Kentucky

Washington

New York

Oregon

Kansas

Massachusetts

Connecticut

Minnesota

Virginia

Hawaii
- It's hard to believe Kentucky has clean water. There has to be some lead in their water if they keep voting McConnell lmao
  
  Kentucky is like another world.
  
  Strangest state I've ever been in.
Considering that Kentucky is a limestone deposit that makes sense
I was just watching an episode of Dimension 20 last night from campaign 3, and at one point Brennan said, "New York has the best tap water in the country". I'm glad that years later I can confirm that he was pretty dang close, and at the time, maybe right.
It's barely rating the quality of the actual water coming from the taps. That's a single datapoint among 6 other factors, like customer service of the water utility.

And the source of the ranking (JD Power) doesn't really list any breakdowns of that either.
- Yeah as an environmental chemist I was sorely disappointed. To be fair it would be grueling to compile all that data though. I don't know where my water quality report is hosted and I'm probably the one who analyzed it!
Live in Arizona, can confirm the water is absolutely horrible.
- From KS, then lived in AZ and moved to TX and now VA. Went from good to bad to really bad to pretty good again.
  
  AZ water is better than TX water and that was a sad realization for me.
I'm a little surpised to see WA above OR but most of my WA water was wells and Bull Run water is pretty good.

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