• MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 U.S. states with the worst tap water:

    • Alabama
    • Maryland
    • Oklahoma
    • New Mexico
    • Texas
    • Pennsylvania
    • Ohio
    • Mississippi
    • Arizona
    • Indiana
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        Just means you’re building up an immunity to lead and arsenic 💪😤

        -from a 2nd worst tap water resident

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        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.

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          I’d like to believe that’s true, but I’ve also had Cuyahoga Falls water and Marietta water… Cuyahoga Falls water taste awful, and Marietta water makes me burp (… which is just plain weird). Akron water is okay, but kind of smells.

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      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

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      Always got sick drinking straight from the tap in texas.

      Make sure you filter that shit.

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    From the article, 10 U.S. states with the best tap water:

    • Kentucky
    • Washington
    • New York
    • Oregon
    • Kansas
    • Massachusetts
    • Connecticut
    • Minnesota
    • Virginia
    • Hawaii
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    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.

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    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.

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      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!

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      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.

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    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.