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    Canadian city's tap water wins top prize in U.S. tasting contest

    BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. - A panel of media judges says the tap water in Greenwood, B.C., is the best tasting municipal water in the world.

    Greenwood won the top municipal water prize Saturday at the 22nd annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting in Berkeley Springs, W.V.

    St. Henry, Ohio, won the best municipal water in the United States award.

    The best bottled water prize went to Jackson Springs Natural Premium Spring Water of Manitoba.

    Esparanza of Tesanj, Bosnia, was the best sparkling water winner. MyCause Water of Mechanicsville, Md., won the best packaging award.

    Claire Baie of Oak Creek, Wis., won the best purified drinking water award.

    James M. Stevens received the event's first Lifetime Achievement Award.

    The judges rated waters for appearance, aroma, taste, feel and aftertaste.

     

    11 comments

    • Rob1969  •  2 mths ago
      LOL Gotta love it, there's an 'Academy Awards' for tap water?? That ceremony must have been 'bubbling' over with excitement, with the top winner leaving no 'dry' eye in the house! :P
    • Steven  •  Portland, Oregon  •  2 mths ago
      I would like to check out all the categories and rankings. I'll bet my city has among the best for a large city.
      • Peace 2 mths ago
        Bull Run water shed from the slopes of the Cascades. What more can you ask for? I still use a filter though - a bit phobic.
    • Richard  •  San Francisco, California  •  2 mths ago
      Hard to find Jackson Springs water in Winnipeg but plenty available in Grand Forks,N.D. Why?Shame on us here in Manitoba when we have such a resource.We all can't exist on Crown Royal.
    • Kaman  •  2 mths ago
      "media judges" -- and they are?
    • seawench  •  2 mths ago
      thats why Canadian beer tastes soooo good. Molsen, Kokanee, Labbats, all tastes better. Love the suds eh!
      • dennis 2 mths ago
        They dont brew for quanity the brew with pride! The also have jobs and health care!
    • gizmosellschickens  •  Chaska, Minnesota  •  2 mths ago
      Water from the Mississippi is light swirl lite like that Bill Murray poured on SNL with tire shavings, cow parts, road salt, rusted bolts. They still still dump cow parts, and tree shavings in the Ohio River or that only people that cheat the Riverboat Casinos.
    • Grim Reaper  •  2 mths ago
      The probably added some Molsen Ice to the water.
    • Peace  •  Portland, Oregon  •  2 mths ago
      Canadian water is not all pure - lots of mining and drilling and forestation going on and it is not all processed. Very rural place vast and variety of water sources. I am glad Greenwood BC has it figured out.
    • Rusty Shackleford  •  Sunnyvale, California  •  2 mths ago
      if it's brown drink it down, if it's black, send it back.
    • Carey  •  Denver, Colorado  •  2 mths ago
      EH!
    • Kraken  •  2 mths ago
      On a more significant note, most municipal water is, of course, tainted with fluoride. People have wondered in the comment sections about Americans being so apathetic about what the #$%$ in Washington, DC is doing to destroy the U.S. The guards of the death camps in Hitler's Germany have said that they added fluoride to the water to keep the inmates sedated and docile. THAT is what is keeping Americans sedated & docile about the perfidy & treason that has been occurring in DC for a long time. Research scientists recently announced that fluoride does nothing to protect teeth. Kentucky has fluoridated water, and KENTUCKY ALSO HAS THE WORST DENTITION IN THE U.S. This nation has been plied with that crap since the end of WW2, and it has done nothing but make Americans docile and compliant with the benighted legislation for ulterior motives causing this nation to suffer the mess it is now in.We can change nothing vis-a-vis this nation's survival, UNTIL fluoride is banned by law from of our water supply
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