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State Ranking

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