Newsweek ranked which states had the fewest health-related water safety violations based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Water supplies in the U.S. are among the safest in the world, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. But water quality does still vary from state to state. So which states have the best drinking water?The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 was passed to protect public health in the U.S. by providing federal regulation of the nation's public drinking water supply.
4 Meanwhile, those with the most health-related violations during this period were as follows: Alaska 305 New Mexico 162 Louisiana 151 Oklahoma 127 Wyoming 103 The EPA warns that the total number of health-related violations does not necessarily equate to water quality.'The data reported to the EPA consists of violations of Safe Drinking Water Act regulations,' a spokesperson from the EPA told Newsweek.
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