{"id":1466,"date":"2017-06-20T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2018-04-27T20:52:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:52:23","slug":"2017-tap-water-taste-test-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/2017-tap-water-taste-test-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"What City Has the Best Tasting Tap Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 13th annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.awwa.org\/resources-tools\/public-affairs\/public-affairs-events\/taste-test.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AWWA Tap Water Taste Test<\/a> took place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awwa.org\/conferences-education\/conferences\/annual-conference.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE17)<\/a> in Philadelphia on June 12-14. <\/strong>Competing cities were winners of regional tap water taste tests. The competition rules require that participating cities\u00a0must not have incurred any state or federal drinking water violations during the previous 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Each competing city provided samples of their tap water. All samples are served at room temperature and a panel of judges scored each sample. 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