Town of Smithfield, Virginia
is
One of America's Top Five Drinking Water Systems!
(Washington, D.C.) –
You don’t have to buy bottled water to get real quality. At least, that
is the case if you live in the Town of Smithfield, Virginia. In this
rural community, all you have to do is turn the faucet for pure “Quality
On Tap!”
The Town of Smithfield
was one of the top five finalists today at the Fourth Annual Great
American Water Taste Test. The taste test is held each year on Capitol
Hill in conjunction with the National Rural Water Association’s Annual
Rally in Washington, D.C.
NRWA represents over
22,400 rural and small utilities so it is quite an accomplishment to make it to
the final competition where the Town of Smithfield competed against the
top water systems from 44 state rural water associations finishing in the
top five with the winner being Public Wholesale Water Supply District #4
of Cherryvale, Kansas.
The judges for the
event were, Hilda Legg, Administrator Rural Utilities Service; John W.
Keys, III, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation; and Sarah Lucas, Deputy
Staff Director for the Democratic Senate Committee. Each judge evaluated
glasses of water from the five finalists measuring them on clarity,
bouquet and taste.
The five finalist
were: Town of Smithfield, Smithfield, Virginia; Regional Water, Inc.,
Avoca, Iowa; Public Wholesale Water Supply District #4, Cherryvale,
Kansas; Lake Section Water Co., Chaparral, New Mexico; and Zephyr Water
Supply, Zephyr, Texas.
State Rural Water
Associations conduct preliminary competitions selecting the best water
from small and rural systems to represent their state at the national
finals.
Every April, the
National Rural Water Association sponsors the Rural Water Rally and Great
American Taste Test on Capitol Hill to give utility and state officials an
opportunity to visit one-on-one with their Congressional representatives
and discuss key water and wastewater issues.
Photo: Mark
Norris
displays water from the Town of Smithfield, Virginia which was voted as
one of the top five water systems for “Quality On Tap!” at the 4th
Annual Great American Water Taste Test held during the National Rural
Water Rally in Washington D.C.
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