15 Cities with the Cleanest Tap Water in the US in 2017

Each year in US there is a competition in water tasting in Berkeley Springs, the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting, which is also one of the largest competitions in the world of that kind. There are several categories in this competition, and among them is the best municipal water. Anyone can participate in this water tasting, though it seems it is the most attractive to US competitors.

But that is all about water taste. What is more important for this matter are the chemicals and contaminants in water that, if contained in larger amounts can cause serious health issues, such as cancer for example. There is an interesting research being done on issue of cleanest tap water in the US, actually on 15 US cities where you can get the cleanest tap water for 2017, and it was published on Insider Monkey.

In order to make a trustworthy ranking of the cities with the cleanest tap water in the US, their methodology included the information from the Environmental Working Group, which has updated info on the environmental issues in the US:

…After we have gone through the cities proposed on these resources, we have double checked information using the EWG’s (Environmental Working Group) Water Database. We have also used the database to rank the cities with cleanest tap water in the US in 2017. So, the ranking was done by comparing cities according to the number of contaminants detected above health guidelines provided by EWG. Also, we have taken into our research only cities with 20 + thousand residents. That is because in case we started looking for cleanest water utilities in the country we would have ended up with showing up results such as that of Boise (ID) utility, which is one of the cleanest in the country, but only serves 36 people (according to EWG).