The most famous beach and the best water, too
Daytona Beach is a tourism promoter's dream. The city has the World's Most Famous Beach, the Great American Race and ...the Best Tasting Water in the World.
The first two titles are old hat. Daytona's beach has been world famous for a long, long time, and the Daytona 500 was well on the way to earning the tag "the great American race" more than 50 years ago. But only recently has the city's tap water been recognized as the crème de la crème of municipal water.
In 2005, Daytona Beach broke through in the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting contest, winning first place for its smooth, clear, eminently drinkable water. Last week, the city duplicated that feat, claiming the first prize in a battle with 34 other municipal water systems.
Thirteen states and Canada were represented in the competition. So, for the sake of fairness and balance, let's concede it's possible that Daytona Beach's water isn't the best in the entire world. But this event was touted as the Academy Awards of Water, and the Academy -- actually, a panel of judges made up mainly of members of the media -- gave the city the coveted engraved bowl with a gold medal.
With apologies to Sally Field, they like the city's water! They really like it!
The contest helps promote tourism in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. West Virginia is a lovely state, but tourism officials there don't have the Daytona 500 or Bike Week to draw visitors. Apparently, an international water tasting contest is the next best thing.
And a good thing for Daytona Beach, too. A contest press release declared: "Daytona Beach, Florida, was indisputably rated the best tasting water in the world." The judges used wine-tasting techniques -- they even cleansed their palates between tastings -- to decide the winner.
"Clear and fresh" is how one judge described the Daytona Beach entry. Local tourism officials should consider featuring those words in their summer brochures. How about this? "Daytona Beach -- where the water outside is warm and salty and the water inside is clear and fresh."
Or: "Come to Daytona Beach and have a drink on us."
The first two titles are old hat. Daytona's beach has been world famous for a long, long time, and the Daytona 500 was well on the way to earning the tag "the great American race" more than 50 years ago. But only recently has the city's tap water been recognized as the crème de la crème of municipal water.
In 2005, Daytona Beach broke through in the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting contest, winning first place for its smooth, clear, eminently drinkable water. Last week, the city duplicated that feat, claiming the first prize in a battle with 34 other municipal water systems.
Thirteen states and Canada were represented in the competition. So, for the sake of fairness and balance, let's concede it's possible that Daytona Beach's water isn't the best in the entire world. But this event was touted as the Academy Awards of Water, and the Academy -- actually, a panel of judges made up mainly of members of the media -- gave the city the coveted engraved bowl with a gold medal.
With apologies to Sally Field, they like the city's water! They really like it!
The contest helps promote tourism in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. West Virginia is a lovely state, but tourism officials there don't have the Daytona 500 or Bike Week to draw visitors. Apparently, an international water tasting contest is the next best thing.
And a good thing for Daytona Beach, too. A contest press release declared: "Daytona Beach, Florida, was indisputably rated the best tasting water in the world." The judges used wine-tasting techniques -- they even cleansed their palates between tastings -- to decide the winner.
"Clear and fresh" is how one judge described the Daytona Beach entry. Local tourism officials should consider featuring those words in their summer brochures. How about this? "Daytona Beach -- where the water outside is warm and salty and the water inside is clear and fresh."
Or: "Come to Daytona Beach and have a drink on us."
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