29% of the state's public water systems have health based Safe Drinking water Act violations, three times the national average. And nearly 80% of the entire state have some form of violation. Between 2016 and 2024, nearly 1 million West Virginians, about half of the state's population, were served by systems violating federal standards. The three counties with the highest water violation rates in the country, all three of them are in West Virginia. (00:43–00:55)
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States that nearly 1 million West Virginians were served by water systems violating federal standards between 2016 and 2024.
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