Mmmmm yeah, love that water. Delicious beverage. Cool on the lips, baby. Get it into me.
That cool, refreshing, life-sustaining liquid that bonds and unites us all ain’t exactly thought of as being something with taste great enough to rate beyond a scale of “it’s drinkable.” But here we are in the Wet Days of our Lives, basking in the fact that someone has gone out and found Australia’s Tastiest Tap Water™.
The Water Industries Operators Association of Australia conducted the search for the nation’s best drop, which culminated in a blind taste test of H2O samples from five different states in the national final.
And the tastiest water in the land?
Folks, you’re not gonna believe it.
It’s from Tasmania.
The Tassie sample, taken from the northern region of Barrington, beat out samples from Bowraville in NSW, Morgan in South Australia, Myrtleford in Victoria, and Barcaldine in Queensland.
The WIOA devised a “water-tasting wheel” which rates the taste of water on a number of factors, including taste (which can be “acidic,” “sour,” “salty,” “sweet,” or “bitter”) and mouthfeel (which includes descriptors like “drying,” “astringent,” “cooling,” “oily,” “chalky,” “tingling,” or “metallic”).
Craig Mathison, the COO of WIOA, explains the perfect water in rather romantic language thusly:
“You’re looking for a nice, transparent appearance. The smell is important, you don’t want it to be too chemical or earthy. You want it to be a pleasant odour.”
Although with all that said he did note that taste was “an individual thing.”
The winning Tassie sample will now be entered into the 2017 global tastiest water competition, which is absolutely a real thing.
Mathison and the WIOA are now turning their attention to other ventures, like a potential trans-Tasman water battle, which Mathison dubs the “Bledisloe Cup” of water.
You can’t make this stuff up, ladies and germs.
Source: The Guardian.
