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I'm not fully following the situation in the US, so I don't know if it's a fair comparison or not. But I have seen some issues north of the border here in Canad

I'm not fully following the situation in the US, so I don't know if it's a fair comparison or not. But I have seen some issues north of the border here in Canada over my lifetime. I think there are reports of bad water fairly often in First Nations communities, but I haven't followed the topic too closely. Some recent information: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/first-nations-water-drinking-settlement-1.6382206 https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/first-nations-water-drink... And another one I sort of remember more than 20 years ago was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak But these seem to pale in comparison to the limited stories I've heard out of the US. The Flint water crisis, and some of the poorer communities in the US. I do believe water systems are incredibly expensive infrastructure, even for those of us living next to the great lakes.

skissane 4y ago
I was looking for anything objective to back up my impressions and I found the 2021 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index – https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021 https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021 Looking at major English speaking countries – New Zealand comes 1st as least corrupt country in world (equal with Denmark and Finland); UK is 11th; Canada and Ireland are equal 13th (along with Austria, Estonia and Iceland); Australia is equal 18th (with Belgium, Japan and Uruguay). The US is equal 27th, with Chile. So yes, among major English-speaking countries, the US is the most corrupt.