I was first in New York for the World’s Fair in 1964. I was nine at the time, and immediately noticed just how good the tap water tasted. Better than in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, or West Virginia! :o
Whatever water is in my Camelbak during a long bike ride in summer.
People say that the tapwater in Fresno is bad…but it was the best water I ever tasted…so perhaps I was there at a good time. It tasted like fresh water straight from the Sierra snowmelt – and it might have been exactly that.
You got lucky. Fresno water is horrible.
The best water I’ve had is anywhere in the Lake Arrowhead region … BUT … you must drink it by pouring the water from the spigot into your cup-shaped hands (having a friend around helps here). Using plastic or metal will ruin the taste.
After a long hike undertaken with no planning, we made it back to the base station and a bottle of some commercial water that tasted sooooooo good.
Yeah, water tastes best when you need it, not where you are. I’ve had water from a garden hose that was sublime.
Bit I’d rather dessicate than drink mountain dew.
From the well at the house of a friend. Many of his guests say it’s the best.
He had it checked by a hydrologist some years ago, who said it has probably been underground for a thousand years or more.
New York City’s is the best big-city water in the U.S.
I’ve had better water from mountain springs in Greece and Italy. And I’m fond of Sieur de Monts Spring in Acadia National Park.
I had to change a tire…in the United Arab Emirates…by myself…in 110F weather.
The 2 liter bottle my friend brought me afterwards was the best damn tasting water I’ve ever had.
My town Marblehead, Ma had the best water ,this was 70 years ago. I have no idea if this is still true . You could drink it right from the tap not like the water in my city now!
Oakland, CA has the most delicious tap water-- it has a clean, sweet taste.
Another spot with really good water is Matrimony Springs near Moab. Not a tap, but more like a pipe coming out of the base of the canyon wall. By the time the water comes out of that pipe, it’s been filtered through a couple thousand feet of sandstone. Tasty stuff.
Bad water is obvious, had lots of good water but the best is after a long hike. Like cooking while camping, it tastes better when you need it most.
Well water at my Great-Aunt’s cabin on Silver Lake (Laconia, NH). Freezing cold any time of year.
In the small town of Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. I got to have cool well water from an earthen jug on a hot summer day. It was heaven. There was a sweetness and a mineral tang that I haven’t found elsewhere.
Another vote for Banff. I filled some bottles with water and brought it home in checked luggage. I liked it that much.
My dad told me that you should never ruin and good beer thirst with water. So, sometimes even the best water isn’t good enough.
Probably when I woke up with a hangover coming on and stuck my head under the faucet in some random place at 5am. That is refreshing!
I love water but it almost all tastes the same to me. There is such a thing as bad water though. My best friend’s house when I was growing up had well water that was just straight-up nasty. It had lots of mineral content but especially sulphur. It tasted like you were licking a skunk’s ass unless you did something. For some reason, he had this recipe that involved mixing a tiny bit of salt in with it. It certainly didn’t taste good even then but you could down it if you had to like some bastardized version of swamp Gatorade.
Anything better than that seems like pure, distilled glacier water.
The water from any of the public drinking fountains in Rome… clean, clear, cool, and wonderful, especially when you’ve been walking the hills of the city.
The tap water in a little village in Italy called Limano. It comes straight from a spring in the mountains (there are free-flowing fountains around the town) and OH MY GOD it is amazing. Everyone was drinking wine and I was all “I’ll just have a tap water.”