White Salmon, Washington -- population 2, 143 -- won top honors Tuesday at the Great American Water Taste Test.

CNN: Best-testing water in U.S.: White Salmon, Washington

White Salmon is about 60 miles east of Portland, Oregon, on the north side of the Columbia River, in southernmost Washington state.

CNN: Best-testing water in U.S.: White Salmon, Washington

"Our ground water is exceptional in its quality, " said Will Keyser, Director of Public Works and Community Planning for the city White Salmon.

CNN: Best-testing water in U.S.: White Salmon, Washington

They also offer fresh sockeye from Alaska and the rare Ivory King or white salmon, accounting for less than one percent of the variety.

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Keyser said the Columbia Rim Water Association has two wells that serve 1, 500 homes, or about 3, 500 people in White Salmon, Bingen and the port of Klickitat, Washington.

CNN: Best-testing water in U.S.: White Salmon, Washington

The robot aircraft, known as aerosondes, are the brainchildren of an engineer called Tad McGeer and are being developed in a collaboration between the Insitu Group, a firm based in White Salmon, Washington State, and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

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Planked salmon with a white sauce was a favorite of President Franklin D.

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For example, because we knew exactly how much she was being fed and what she was being fed, we were able to get information about how efficiently she was using that food, how efficiently she was turning it from salmon filets, for example, into new white shark.

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