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State Ranking

Rank	State	Contams. detected	Contams. over health limits	Poplulation exposed to contams.	Population exposed over health- based limits
1	California*	145	64	49,824,189	46,852,770
2	Wisconsin	118	60	3,768,113	3,575,284
3	North Carolina	107	56	6,501,832	6,179,490
4	Florida	107	59	16,562,089	15,538,094
5	Texas	105	56	19,588,430	17,486,112
6	New York	104	41	2,049,452	1,221,890
7	Nevada	100	41	2,214,147	2,173,655
8	Pennsylvania	96	44	10,397,815	9,339,157
9	Ohio	92	41	10,062,663	9,655,568
10	New Mexico	90	42	1,548,721	1,478,730
11	Illinois	90	58	11,198,631	10,614,995
12	Arkansas	88	35	3,049,009	2,818,461
13	Arizona	87	46	4,850,968	4,582,065
14	Nebraska	87	37	1,421,806	1,358,977
15	Minnesota	86	39	4,040,322	3,526,931
16	Washington	84	36	5,568,278	4,744,830
17	New Jersey	84	33	7,549,458	6,230,258
18	New Hampshire	80	36	767,605	709,180
19	Iowa	80	38	2,451,394	1,886,489
20	Alaska	75	26	459,864	407,213
21	Maine	74	36	611,507	464,125
22	Missouri	74	40	3,305,221	2,266,355
23	Colorado	72	37	4,366,874	4,104,241
24	Indiana	70	37	4,267,358	3,671,628
25	Delaware	70	33	758,089	561,982
26	Michigan	69	31	4,182,987	3,739,304
27	Tennessee	65	30	4,929,756	4,491,308
28	Kentucky	64	30	5,161,346	1,887,529
29	Alabama	63	28	4,155,228	3,114,821
30	Virginia	62	33	5,521,535	4,884,562
31	Utah	57	30	3,590,242	3,310,907
32	Wyoming	57	35	304,744	235,222
33	Oklahoma	56	25	3,071,689	2,126,548
34	Idaho	54	39	949,891	709,060
35	Montana	54	26	634,029	468,499
36	South Carolina	52	24	2,609,114	2,023,757
37	North Dakota	46	28	528,128	473,122
38	Oregon	32	10	2,364,119	567,167
39	Rhode Island	25	6	447,874	2,864
40	South Dakota	23	9	493,161	156,645
41	Massachusetts	17	14	7,276,333	5,617,520
42	West Virginia	2	0	5,887	0
National Total		260	120	223,409,898	195,257,315

* According to EPA, the actual number of individuals served is smaller, because many Americans drank water from, and are counted as users by, more than one public water system during the course of a year.