The American Water Works Association (AWWA) announced that the City of Miramichi in New Brunswick, Canada, won the Best of the Best Water Taste Test.
The City of Emproia, Kansas, was named the winner of the People’s Choice Water Taste Test.
The events, which were sponsored by Brown and Caldwell, included regional winners from water tasting competitions and was held at AWWA’s Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE23) in Toronto.
Second place in the Best of the Best Water Taste Test went to the City of Grand Junction in Colorado and third place went to Raleigh Water - Dempsey E. Benton Water Treatment Plant in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Best of the Best Water Taste Test is determined by a panel of judges that included trained water flavor profilers, and the People’s Choice Taste Test is determined by conference attendees.
The City of Miramichi is a city in northeast New Brunswick with a population of 18,500. It operates three separate water systems with each source from 19 active ground wells. Fifteen of the wells are fed directly into the distribution system and are disinfected by chlorine.
ACE23, which brought an estimated 10,000 water professionals to Toronto, is the longest-running water conference in the world, having first convened in 1881. The event features more than 440 expert presentations and an exposition featuring more than 450 exhibitors.
