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2025 Best Tasting Drinking Water Contest

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Rules:

  • There is a limit of one entry per utility
  • Total contest entries are limit to 20.
  • Entrant must deliver treated drinking water from a treatment facility or wells it operates to residential customers. (Can be a wholesaler who sells to municipalities with residential customers.) (Cannot be a consecutive system that exclusively purchases treated drinking water.)
  • No TCEQ drinking water violations in 2024 and 2025.
  • Each entry must be submitted online by Friday, February 14, 2025.** (Address provided on entry form must be a street address for FedEx delivery of bottles; cannot be a PO Box; bottles are shipped to the attention of the person listed on the entry form)
  • Two one-quart, glass bottles and lids will be shipped to the entrant. Samples must be submitted in the glass bottles shipped. Notify Mary of any bottles arrive broken.
  • Two filled bottles must be submitted for the entry.
  • Each container should clearly identify the:
    • utility name
    • entry name
    • water system contact name and cell phone number (person present at the conference)
  • Water samples will be accepted between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 20, 2025 ONLY to the sample collection table located in the Texas Water registration area of the George R. Brown Convention Center. Samples should be refrigerated up to delivery.
  • Entries are judged on clarity, odor and taste.
  • All entrants are required to have an onsite representative attend the taste test and be available for photos. Failure to have a representative attend the contest may result in disqualification.

Event Details:

Date: Thursday, March 20
Time: 1:30-3 p.m.
Location: George R. Brown Convention Center, Exhibit Hall (Top Ops Area)

The winning water system will be announced immediately following the taste test. The onsite representative must be available at that time to receive the award and pose for photos.

**Having the entry deadline so far in advance is necessary to allow time for shipping bottles to entrants.