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