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- DeskFlyer, on 04/16/2008, -0/+16710. Tulsa, OK
9. Pittsburgh, PA
8. Tampa, FL
7. Las Vegas, NV
6. Boise City, ID
5. Birmingham, AL
4. Miami, FL
3. Sioux Falls, ND
2. Austin, TX
1. Des Moines, IA - woofers07, on 04/16/2008, -0/+45Thank you for the list, ***** forbes.com and their ***** ***** layout.
- WeirdEdsel, on 04/16/2008, -0/+38What the hell is with these types of layouts?
Also, I live in Boise, ID and I've never heard it called "Boise City." Heh. - Jo9100, on 04/16/2008, -1/+34Ahhh not Forbes again... damn I hate their ad-loaded 10-paged articles
- OneLess, on 04/16/2008, -2/+30Kind of odd that no Hawaiian city made that list; they have excellent water.
- Divals, on 04/16/2008, -3/+31Pittsburgh? Seriously? The water here tastes like death.
- gambit2121, on 04/16/2008, -0/+25I'm more interested about the worst drinking water than the best...
- dxgg, on 04/16/2008, -0/+19More pages = more ads
Of course, many of us never see them. :) - inactive, on 04/16/2008, -0/+18Website: Why only have 3 ad impressions per visitor when we could have 30!
- guyinjapan, on 04/16/2008, -2/+19Damn, Austin actually has clean water? And here I've been spending all this money on water filters... I stop giving Brita my money today.
- inactive, on 04/16/2008, -1/+17Where is New York, NY? We have one of the best filtration systems in the country! Our tap water tastes way better than the bottled stuff.
- ladyarcher85, on 04/16/2008, -0/+12Thank you! I don't want to go through another forbes slideshow.
- tranklan, on 04/16/2008, -4/+16Regardless of where you live, public tap water is way better to drink than any alternative.
Approximately 65% of bottled water is produced and sold in the same state, so the FDA (the federal govt) has no control over the local industry. The FDA standards for the water it can control are insane... the FDA only requires testing for contamination once per week, testing for synthetic organic chemicals once per quarter, and does not outlaw the presence of e-coli/fecal material in the water supply. Sucks, eh?
Bottled water starts water wars, and kills us all.
It is bad for the environment (production and transportation), is economically infeasible for consumers (it costs more per ounce than gas), and is bad for consumers health. - sirbeta, on 04/16/2008, -0/+12They get to show you 20 ads, opposed to 2.
- Railz, on 04/16/2008, -0/+10I have to agree. New York water is actual natural mountain water.
- Atxguitarist, on 04/16/2008, -0/+9Hey going from Austin to San Antonio water is a bitch. The water in San Antonio smells and taste horrible. Can I have your Brita filter? lol
- Masterteedy, on 04/16/2008, -0/+9Sioux Falls is in SD, not ND, just saying.
- Persian5Life, on 04/16/2008, -0/+9it would be interesting if they made another list showing nations.
- Jazzillion, on 04/16/2008, -0/+8I lived in Miami and the water was metallic tasting with an odd bitter after taste. Now that I have moved to Portland, OR, the water tastes clean and crisp with no aftertaste, but was nowhere on the list. Just sayin'.
- iSkylla, on 04/16/2008, -0/+8Water in NJ is terrible, they dump massive amounts of chlorine into it and I know it's especially bad when I turn on the tap, and I can smell the water.
Because of that, I have a reverse osmosis setup for my water so I don't have to drink that crap. - Arthemys, on 04/16/2008, -0/+7Maybe you're just used to the taste of Dasani?
- mitch37, on 04/16/2008, -1/+8excluding the rest of the world FTW.
- LexisNexis, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6I was about to say! Naturally filtered and no additives like fluoride.
- inactive, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6Thank you for caring enough to post an "I don't care" comment. My life now has meaning...
- inactive, on 04/16/2008, -1/+7Cake or Death?
- mGARANDEUR1, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6The article mentions nothing about chlorine levels in the water.
- jaxter2010, on 06/17/2009, -6/+12No Love for NYC?
- lostarchitect, on 04/16/2008, -2/+8it's all the hair gel washing down the drains.
- Raisedshoulder, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6Also where the hell is Anchorage, AK? Their drinking water tastes like bottled water.
- inactive, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6Is this place near Alaska?
- Edudris, on 04/16/2008, -0/+5New York, New York tap water holds legendary value, so most likely I'd guess they disqualified it before the judging began, barring Copepods.
Seriously, I moved from NY to San Diego, CA almost four years ago, and I still say that New York tap water tastes better than most bottled water I can get out west. - lostarchitect, on 04/16/2008, -0/+5i hear it's good, too, and i do drink it often, but i worry about our water tunnel situation.
- heystoopid, on 04/16/2008, -1/+6it is worse then being rick rolled !
- commitone, on 04/16/2008, -0/+5Agreed. I found Hawaii's tap water taste better than the bottled ones.
- iSkylla, on 04/16/2008, -0/+5I really don't know. It was used for a salt water setup which I no longer have because I don't have the time. All I knww is that it removes all the heavy metals from the water, and the chemicals like chlorine from the water. If I were to the regular water on any fish setup, salt water or fresh, the fish would die. That mistake was only made once. Since I don't have the fish anymore, I use it to purify drinking water and it tastes great, the same if not better than bottled water. It's just really clean.
The filters however, are very expensive, thank god they last for a while. - lostarchitect, on 04/16/2008, -0/+5that's because they just dump prozac in the LA water supply now.
- airwalke, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4Des Moines has some fine water in general, but it really went to ***** during the snow melt. Showers, toilets, tap water all smelled like chlorine for weeks.
- devila2208, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4I can't believe Memphis wasn't on the list. That's one of the only things we're number one in...that and murder rates :-/
- bjornski, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4You say that as if spelling is difficult.
"Did you just congratulate me for reading?" -Huey Freeman - farfegnugen, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4Where I'm from they also add in tons of fluoride. (Union County)
- theeldest, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4Well *****.
I grew up in Dubuque-ish, went to school in Ames (almost Des Moines, really) and recently moved to Austin.
I just keep moving down the totem pole. - Maggette, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4Does anybody else hate how Forbes presents their top 10 lists as slideshows? It's really annoying.
- Gella321, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4I find it strange that Des Moines is even on this list. I figured we'd be last with all the hog farms around here and the horribly polluted Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers.
Edit: I just realized that we have one of the most advanced water treatment facilities (due to the heavily polluted nearby rivers) in the nation, so I guess that might explain it. - kentifer, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4Here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada the water is most excellent. We're the first major city to get our water from the glaciers flowing through the north Saskatchewan river.
- squishee, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4Las Vegas water tastes like a kid shoveled some dust into a water bottle. I met a guy there who said his brother in law used to work for the city and claimed the water was clean but refused to drink it because it tasted like crap.
- parallax7d, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3Yeah, no Portland = poor list.
- Railz, on 04/16/2008, -1/+4That isn't always good.
- OneLess, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3If they keep it up, eventually they might be able to make it on some sort of list of 500 high-revenue companies.
- inchrnt, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3winner
- DeathJux, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3Seriously, this ***** has got to be on a paid-for-diggs scheme.
I always scream when I see their layout, and immediately close it. -
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