CONFERENCE'25

Hydrant Hysteria and Drinking Water Taste Test 

Tuesday evening during the Meet & Greet Reception.

Try your skills and win prizes!

The winning Hydrant Hysteria teams will be provided airfare and hotel accommodations to represent AWWMA at ACE26! Start working together now and practice as a team to bring back the trophy!

Contact Joe Swain for more information on how to compete, or click here to LEARN MORE about the competition.

The Drinking Water Taste Test winner will be provided the opportunity to take a fresh sample to ACE’25 to represent Alaska’s! Bring your treated water samples to the REGISTRATION DESK upon arrival and sign up at the conference!

TASTE TEST RULES

ELIGIBILITY

• The Best of Alaska Tap Water Taste Tests are open to any Alaska system that treats water.
• Winners must not have incurred any state or federal drinking water violations (MCL, monitoring, recordkeeping, etc.) during the previous 12 months.

REQUIREMENTS

• Personal attendance is required for the competition.
• Six samples should submitted, each in a one liter container. Glass containers are preferable, but utilities can use the container of their choosing. Each sample should be clearly identified with the name of the water system and Section it represents.
• Samples must be delivered to the conference registration desk by 3:00 pm the day of the competition.
• Samples will be served at room temperature to help the judges better assess each sample.

CONTEST JUDGING

• The official Best of Alaska judging panel will be AWWMA members and flavor-profile analyzers.
• Samples will be judged on a 10-point scale from Good (1) to Best (10).
• Scores will be tabulated and the winner will be announced immediately following the contest.
• Only the winning three samples will be announced – samples will not be ranked nor will scores be released.