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.
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
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.
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.
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!