Yale University’s Environmental Performance Index, which tracks 40 performance indicators—including “Sanitation & Drinking Water”—in order to pinpoint the most environmentally friendly countries in the world. Additional performance indicators tracked by the EPI include environmental health, climate change mitigation, air quality, waste management, biodiversity, fishery populations, and more.

Sounds a bit like "stuff in place doing things" rather than actual quality tests. If so a bit of greenwashing seems feasible.

Sounds more like a development index than a quality index.

[–] SierpinskiDreieck@feddit.org 7 points 6 days ago

Which is even wilder. They are acting like agricultural and oil-drilling practices in the US (and elsewhere too) are not degrading the global fresh water base.

This is propaganda.

[–] Benign@fedia.io 6 points 5 days ago

Two main issues I see here:

they don't care if it is tap or bottle
they rely on hospitals reporting on contaminated water as a cause of medical issues or something

I other words: Only bottled water available, and hospitals don't report on water contamination issues - > 💯

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Flint is a very small percentage of the population, so even if everyone in Flint was affected, which they weren't, it would still be possible to get a 100/100 score. The problem with Flint's water was highly publicized because of how uncommon it is for water to be unsafe in America.

The legal limit for lead in drinking water in the EU is 10 ug/L. Lots of places in the EU are above that.

Flint, at the height of the crisis, had a median of 3.5 ug/L, but 17% of samples were over 15. Compare that to the study I linked, which shows Vienna having 18% of samples over 25.

[–] SierpinskiDreieck@feddit.org -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

yeah. i do not doubt for a second scientists can bullshit up a nice statistic where any country on the planet gets a "100% renewable green sticker well done buddy". those are smart people.

if it says 100/100 and the US is fracking the shit out of its country something is left out. most likely by design. What we measure becomes our goals, if they say it is 100/100 that means keep doing what you are doing.

e: I can't imagine italy deservers one either, just to be clear, or the 96 in austria where I live. Lots of wells from people on the countryside are deemed unsfae bacuse of fertilizer pollution

[–] stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I have never seen any other country than the USA where you can set tap water on fire.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I definitely dont believe the US is 100%, sounds like they just decided all the lead water was not drinking water so in fact only drinkable water is drinking water.