NYC Now Has 2nd Best Tasting Tap Water

In 2008, the New York State Department of Health announced that NYC won the coveted title for best-tasting drinking water in New York, which vindicated our tap when we came in 2nd earlier that year during an unscientific blind taste testing. But while many of us don't even feel the need to filter our water through a Brita, we don't actually have The Best tasting water according to some people. No, that title has just been handed to Stevens Point, Wisconsin (pop. 25,000).

The Wall Street Journal reports that we did, however, come in 2nd—the highest honor the city has received at the American Water Works Association’s annual contest—where winners are declared following taste-test competitions. The NYC Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway declared: “[this] confirms a fact that locals have known for decades: New York City water is simply the best.” Er, simply the 2nd best.

Bet you can't make a good bagel with any Wisconsin water, though... plus, who knows what kind of unsophisticated palettes were judging this thing.

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By Jen Carlson in News on June 23, 2010 4:06 PM

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wingedearth

2nd best tasting? Did they mention that our tap water is full of pharmaceutical drugs?

gawkthis

See what happens when you eliminate or reduce organized crime in NYS? The taste of our tap water suffers!

In past years organized crime regularly recycled their aging Mafiosos into the state rivers and aquifers thus adding that special "fresh and clean" taste to our natural waters.

By successfully attacking organized crime in the state we have removed the availability of our special secret ingredient!

Damn you Rudi Guliani!

gerf

I don't use a Brita for the taste. I use the brita thing because the pipes that serve my building are probably 100 years old!

Who knows what's in those things

just saying

I used to use a water filter on my faucet but the filter wouldn't last more than a few weeks. Now I just have a regular mesh aerator covering the faucet and I still have to clean out what appears to be mud-like gunk from the mesh. Yuck. Even Jersey has better water.

jennesy

Clearly the author has never had a bagel from Wisconsin-based Bagels Forever...

Mr Mel

How about the carbon footprint of the water that's bottled overseas?

Lay off the Fiji, Evian and Perrier.

gerf

plus Evian tastes weird

Shinobi Shaw

Hear here! Evian almosr gives me a pseudo headachy feeling.

However I do love Perrier and Fiji is good once in a while.

kazubes

We have such great water and yet beverage company special interest groups still manage to convince people that Paterson's soda tax would hurt the poor.

las2381

i believe what you really meant was we should get on all those people who drink bottled water (which would be exempt from that tax along with diet soda).