Which State Has the Dirtiest Water

Impaired Waters Listed By State divided by Percentage of area water by state

Created by: wdncnu

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Geography and Environment

The score indicates which states have the dirtiest water, given their water area. Obviously we are working with numbers of waterways, not the size of them, so there is likely to be all kinds of distortion there.

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Rank	Region	Impaired Waters Listed By State	÷	Percentage of area water by state	Result
1	Pennsylvania	6,957.00	÷	2.69	2,586.25
2	Kansas	1,333.00	÷	0.56	2,380.36
3	West Virginia	1,271.00	÷	0.63	2,017.46
4	Idaho	1,392.00	÷	0.98	1,420.41
5	New Hampshire	5,211.00	÷	4.08	1,277.21
6	Indiana	1,836.00	÷	1.51	1,215.89
7	New Mexico	188.00	÷	0.19	989.47
8	Montana	677.00	÷	1.01	670.30
9	Kentucky	1,089.00	÷	1.68	648.21
10	Oregon	1,397.00	÷	2.42	577.27
11	Colorado	200.00	÷	0.36	555.56
12	Tennessee	900.00	÷	2.20	409.09
13	Iowa	278.00	÷	0.71	391.55
14	Oklahoma	681.00	÷	1.76	386.93
15	Virginia	2,534.00	÷	7.43	341.05
16	Illinois	1,058.00	÷	4.02	263.18
17	Texas	651.00	÷	2.53	257.31
18	Washington	1,714.00	÷	6.67	256.97
19	Nebraska	150.00	÷	0.62	241.94
20	Arizona	68.00	÷	0.32	212.50
21	Nevada	129.00	÷	0.66	195.45
22	South Carolina	915.00	÷	5.97	153.27
23	California	691.00	÷	4.73	146.09
24	Wyoming	106.00	÷	0.73	145.21
25	Minnesota	1,144.00	÷	8.43	135.71
26	Georgia	281.00	÷	2.56	109.77
27	South Dakota	168.00	÷	1.60	105.00
28	North Dakota	247.00	÷	2.44	101.23
29	North Carolina	902.00	÷	9.49	95.05
30	Arkansas	189.00	÷	2.09	90.43
31	Mississippi	197.00	÷	3.15	62.54
32	Alabama	200.00	÷	3.20	62.50
33	Michigan	2,352.00	÷	41.27	56.99
34	New Jersey	835.00	÷	14.95	55.85
35	Florida	827.00	÷	17.99	45.97
36	Louisiana	250.00	÷	6.00	41.67
37	Vermont	143.00	÷	3.79	37.73
38	New York	491.00	÷	13.46	36.48
39	Utah	118.00	÷	3.25	36.31
40	Wisconsin	593.00	÷	17.08	34.72
41	Massachusetts	837.00	÷	25.72	32.54
42	Ohio	267.00	÷	8.65	30.87
43	Maryland	501.00	÷	21.22	23.61
44	Maine	157.00	÷	12.78	12.28
45	Hawaii	311.00	÷	41.24	7.54
46	Delaware	101.00	÷	21.52	4.69
47	Rhode Island	141.00	÷	32.37	4.36
48	Alaska	33.00	÷	13.77	2.40
49	Missouri	0.00	÷	1.17	0
50	Connecticut	0.00	÷	12.60	0

Comments

nbucknor (7 months ago)

I'm inclined to say that multiplying these two Data Sets would create a more concrete Mashup.

wdncnu1 (7 months ago)

I disagree. I actually played with the numbers some and this is the combo that makes the most sense in showing the relative ranking. With a few exceptions, the results make sense too (farm & mining states near the top). Not sure what is going on in NH though...

Enormous (6 months ago)

Mmm. Absolutely filthy water.