Wise Water Words - Volume 51, Issue 3 (Fall/Winter 2014)
Lincoln Wins Water-Tasting Competition
The Lincoln Water System emerged as the 2014 winner of our annual water-tasting competition. This is the second win for Lincoln; in their last turn as Nebraska's Best-Tasting Water (in 2009), they placed third in the national competition.Six individuals served on our panel of judges:
- Chris Batt, assistant superintendent of the City of Ogallala Water Department
- Brenda Lennox, National AWWA Vice-President and Customer & Support Services Manager for the Tualatin Valley (Oregon) Water District
- Jack Daniel, adminstrator of the Nebraska Office of Drinking Water and Environmental Health
- David Lathrop, 2014 Nebraska Section AWWA Chair and environmental engineer at NDEQ
- Vince Kuppig, environmental engineering graduate student at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- Allison Speicher, environmental engineering graduate student at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln
