I'm confused at your point - I look at the countries we typically view as more left leaning and both Canada and Europe as a whole has better water quality. If anything, it seems to be a delineation of first world status.
Which is interesting, because I can't believe anyone would say the US water is good when no one will drink water from the faucet, it has to be filtered.
It has always been either over chlorinated, or out of a well with all sorts of contaminants such as sulphur.
According to the graph on this site, ALL countries in the world have very bad water, at least after I move my mouse pointer around the map: all the countries turn orange.
> US is good while countries with more left leaning setups do bad.
Huh? This is a map of the industrialized countries - western Europe, the US and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. Not sure how "left leaning setups do bad", the Scandinavian countries seem to have good water.
> the Scandinavian countries seem to have good water.
We certainly do here in Norway. And it's provided by the kommune (the local authority) not a private company. Where I live it is what I dilute my Scotch with. It's easily as good as or better than any bottled water.