LOS ANGELES — The city of St. Louis has new bragging rights: It has the best-tasting city water in the nation.



Hundreds of mayors from around the United States who attended the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 75th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles from June 22-26 were judges of the Best Tasting City Water in America, according to a June 25 press release.







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Put that on all our new tourism avertisements

what can we do with $15,000?



put it into tourism promotion? something that might see a return?

buckethead wrote:The city of St. Louis has new bragging rights: It has the best-tasting city water in the nation.



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Really?!? Best tasting water....really!? Are mayors only exposed to pool water when they are raised? I think St. Louis water is highly chlorinated and has a funky aftertaste. It could be my pipes...but all I know is I couldn't drink more than a gulp or two before I got a Brita filter on my tap.

it's probably your pipes. St. Louis water is by far the best I've had in any city. Obviously, I could be used to it, but Chicago's water actually smells. Denver's is almost like soft water.

ricke002 wrote:

buckethead wrote:The city of St. Louis has new bragging rights: It has the best-tasting city water in the nation.



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Really?!? Best tasting water....really!? Are mayors only exposed to pool water when they are raised? I think St. Louis water is highly chlorinated and has a funky aftertaste. It could be my pipes...but all I know is I couldn't drink more than a gulp or two before I got a Brita filter on my tap.

are you kidding? Before this report came out I always prefer STL water over any other (cities) water and I have been all over the country sampling.

I agree, lived and travel still all over this great country - but STL water is still tops if you ask me.

StlMag - The single ingredient that helped St. Louis become a premier culinary destination

https://www.stlmag.com/dining/the-singl ... -top-5-fo/

Yikes...I hope St. Louis's status as a culinary destination doesn't hinge on the quality of Nudo House ramen. I mean, it's probably the best in St. Louis, but that's not saying much.

I had the funniest experience up in Michigan. We traveled with a friend from Columbia who is a fairly recent immigrant from California. (Well, Vietnam originally. But California most recently.)

. . . Anyway, I'd been discontentedly drinking a glass of nasty ass rural Michigan water so rusty it tastes like blood. Not literally the worst water I've ever had, but probably in the bottom five. And our friend asks me "Isn't this water great?" I was utterly gobsmacked by this question. Yes, We really do have good water. I can't say as I've ever had it's better.

H20. The most underrated molecule ever. 

Pierre Laclede got it; why can't St. Louis capitalize on this? 

^I bet if someone put some leaves and seeds in it, and let it set for awhile, then filled up bottles and cans with the stuff, it would sell pretty well.

DIdn't Pepsico bottle Aquafina here using tap water and distribute it nationally?

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I had the funniest experience up in Michigan. We traveled with a friend from Columbia who is a fairly recent immigrant from California. (Well, Vietnam originally. But California most recently.)

. . . Anyway, I'd been discontentedly drinking a glass of nasty ass rural Michigan water so rusty it tastes like blood. Not literally the worst water I've ever had, but probably in the bottom five. And our friend asks me "Isn't this water great?" I was utterly gobsmacked by this question. Yes, We really do have good water. I can't say as I've ever had it's better.

I had some blood water at a restaurant/lodge place on lake near Hayward, WI. Nasty!

agreed that St. Louis water is the best tasting I've ever had.

Stltoday - St. Louis officials proposing water rate hikes for the first time in 13 years

https://stltoday.com/news/local/govt-an ... 5abee.html

We have been drinking directly off of our kitchen faucet. Now that I am reading on the internet about possible carcinogens (due to PFAs) in urban water, I am petrified: 

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fed ... ains-pfas/

What do you folks do for drinking water?

Any thoughts/suggestions?

stlurbanist wrote:We have been drinking directly off of our kitchen faucet. Now that I am reading on the internet about possible carcinogens (due to PFAs) in urban water, I am petrified: 

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fed ... ains-pfas/

What do you folks do for drinking water?

Any thoughts/suggestions?

What do I do? I nearly always drink filtered water already. I grew up on well water though so that was the normal with that being filtered prior to entering the house.

Thoughts and suggestions? Buy stock in water filter and purified water companies. Oh and of course put a water filter in if you don’t have one.

For whatever it is worth, STLPR ran a story earlier this year that asserted that STL water was "safe" (https://news.stlpublicradio.org/health-science-environment/2023-03-16/epa-proposed-rules-on-forever-chemicals-in-drinking-water-what-does-that-mean-for-st-louis).

The data from the GIS map provided by the Missouri DNR indicates that no sizeable amount of PFAs were found in STL water as recently as last July. 

EDIT: I am not sure what metric the Missouri DNR is using here. I remember another Post-Dispatch article from a few years back that talked about noticeable PFA levels in the range of parts per trillion or something like that.

The map from USGS says "Not detected" for STL. I've been wondering about my frying pans. HAve people been tossing them out and getting PFAS-free new ones?

NPR - 'Forever chemicals' could be in nearly half of U.S. tap water, a federal study finds


https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/11862300 ... pfas-study

USGS - Tap water study detects PFAS 'forever chemicals' across the US



https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news ... -across-us

I drink it out of the tap and always did. Mind you, I'm a weird one and maybe this explains it. But I still think we have the best tap water.

Best tasting water....except if you are under an increasingly frequent boil order!