Every summer, our chairman gives a pool party with relay races and other water contests.
Independence Village won the competition today in a drinking water taste contest conducted by the National Rural Drinking Water Association.
"That sounds hypocritical to me," said Alexis van Gelder, a graduate student who won the city's "I Love SF Water" video contest last year.
So between the breakfasts and luncheons, the awards presentations and the tap water tasting contest, the mayors pressed their federal agenda here, meeting with President Obama and members of Congress and the administration.
Actual catastrophe-rating: 3. The event unfolded without much incident and was even referred to by some as the & 8220Friendly Games.& 8221 Tensions did boil over, however, in the final minutes of a water polo contest, known later as the "Blood in the Water" match, between the Soviet Union and Hungary.
Skip rocks or have a water splashing contest at the lake.
Manoj Ajmera, the coordinator of the annual state water-tasting contest, sponsored by the New York Section of the American Water Works Association and the State Departments of Health and Environmental Conservation, acknowledged that the contest results may be "very unscientific and very subjective".
And, of course, there is "the water-carrying contest to protect the seedlings amid drought", a perennial favourite.The Chinese Peasant Olympics, which finished this month in the southern city of Quanzhou, have been held every four years since 1988.
A morning radio show has been pulled off the air and 10 employees have been fired after a woman died last week after trying to win a Nintendo Wii video game console in a water-drinking contest at the show's studios.
Mr. Schell is intimate with delta rituals, from the Frozen Bun Run, an annual New Year's Day water-ski contest on Bethel Island (no wet suits allowed), to the more arcane pastime of drawing a circle on the barroom floor, putting a bunch of crawdads in the middle and betting which one will skittle out first.
