City Taps Another Strength, Wins Drinking Water Contest
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New York City, already the financial and cultural capital of the state, can add one more achievement to the list: It has the best-tasting tap water. The city beat out 150 other communities around the state to win the annual tap water taste test at the New York State Fair in Syracuse yesterday.
Mayor Bloomberg praised the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, which manages the city’s water supply, and credited it with the victory over the second-place finisher, Pulaski, a town in Oswego County with a population of about 2,400.
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