U.S. Cities With the Best Water

Flint, Michigan’s water contamination issues have dominated news headlines over the last several years.

More recently, the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, released toxic chemicals that now threaten the local water supply.

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Five cities with the least contaminated water:

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Chloroform and bromodichloromethane are two of the four potentially cancer-causing contaminants known as trihalomethanes (dibromochloromethane and bromoform are the other two).

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Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) is a measurement of these four chemicals in drinking water. Memphis and Madison had the lowest levels of TTHMs, while Wilmington, Delaware, had the highest.

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