“We have no chemical problems that we have to worry about like Atrazine or any of your nitrates. The water is in real good shape,” he said, adding it has no aftertaste.

Besides being the best-tasting, Fremont’s water is most likely the least expensive.

“Our rates are way below what anybody else is in the state,” he said.

Andreasen credits the late Bill Sommers, former head of the Fremont Department of Utilities, with having the foresight to obtain a good well field and assemble a good distribution system.

The well field is about 3 miles southeast of town near the Platte River. Originally, city officials bought 450 acres of ground and recently purchased another 250 acres.

“We have plenty of area to keep getting good water from,” he said. “We have done tests out there and there’s a lot of water we can get from out there — so the city’s pretty well set for a long time.”

Wells began being drilled in the 1970s. The wells draw from the High Plains Alluvial Aquifer, flowing down from North Dakota. The water does not come from the Ogallala Aquifer as some might expect, Andreasen said.

This isn’t the first time that Fremont has been recognized for its water.