Sitka's drinking water had high hopes after destroying its Alaska competition but ultimately fell to a water utility that serves Johnson County, Kansas.
The contest took place at the AWWA national water industry conference in San Antonio, Texas. Williams shipped two one-liter glass bottles of Sitka water to the conference in a cooler, but her hopes were nearly dashed in a shipping disaster.
But the next day, Williams received word that only one of the bottles had broken, and they were back in the game.Three judges from the water industry tasted all 26 contestants samples.
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