The Best Tasting Water In The U.s.

On countless occassions I have heard people complain about the tap water that comes out of the faucets in their homes. In some cases its too hard, sometimes its too soft, rarely is it just right. I actually still don't know what too hard or too soft has to do with the taste of water but I certainly have heard water described that way since I was a child. I was reading an article on NBC's site that described a taste test that was performed on the Today show. It was actually quite an elaborate test. The Today's show brought in two prominent wine taste testers to wet their palates with the tap water from twelve of the largest cities in the U.S. They actually poured the water into unmarked, clear water bottes and stored the water at 60 degrees farenheit (cellar temparture). The storage instructions were at the request of these two prominent taste testers.

The top three cities according to the experts were Seattle, Boston, and Columbia, S.C. For some reason I found it interesting that SALT LAKE was the best. It seems like it should be SALTY (but what do I know). I have visited Salt Lake City on several occassions and honestly the water did not leave a lasting impression on me. I did enjoy some excellent green tea at a local area restaurant which I assume was made with their tap water. That could have been the water or maybe it was the sugar in the sweet green tea (I remember this as I had never had sweet green tea before encountering it on this trip).

So before I venture too far away from the reason for this article let me provide the names of the taste testers to you. They were none other than the famous wine tasters David Lynch and his colleague, Joe Bastianich. They used words to describe water that I simply have never heard. For instance the Salt Lake City water was "delicious, Viscous, thick and rich," Wow! I need to go back to Salt Lake City and check this out again. It certainly sounds awfully good described this way. Well, actually delicious, viscous, and rich sound good. I think I have tasted thick (growing up on well water which was plenty thick).

I dug into the ratings of Salt Lake City's water according to studies performed by the Environmental Working Group and sure enough they did have pretty low levels of contaminants in their water. Salt Lake City had 9 pollutants, Boston had 6 pollutants, and Columbia had 7 pollutants. So, to my surprise the city with the lowest number of pollutants was not the winner. Of course, this was an unofficial taste test and toally subjective (based on the opinions of these fine wine tasters). Perhaps it means that my theory of cleaner water tasting better is simply not correct. In any event it really is interesting to me.

So a few of my own theories were certainly not supported by the test performed on the Today show, but I did learn something very valuable. I can now stop referring to water as hard or soft and introduce viscous and rich into the mix. In any event, that certainly makes an ordinary glass of water more interesting.

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