CITY OF NAPA
PROCLAMATION
National Drinking Water Week – May 3-9, 2026
WHEREAS, water is our most valuable natural resource. Drinking water serves as a vital role in daily life, serving an essential purpose for health, hydration, and hygiene needs for the quality of life our residents enjoy; and WHEREAS, the hard work performed by the entire water sector whether designing capital projects, operating a treatment plant to ensure the safety and quality of drinking water, or a member of a pipe crew maintaining the infrastructure, communities rely on water professionals to transport high quality drinking water from its source to consumers’ taps; and WHEREAS, at the annual California-Nevada American WaterWorks Association (AWWA) Conference of the West in April the City of Napa entered drinking water treated at the Barwick Jamieson Treatment Plant into a blind water taste test competing with water purveyors across California-Nevada; and
WHEREAS, as a true testament to the standard of care taken by the Utilities Department water professionals staff and the efficacy of the water treatment process, the City of Napa’s water won third place amongst fifteen entrants for the best tasting water; and WHEREAS, the City of Napa also fielded a team of three water operators; Gabe Aispuro, Mickey Blankenship, and David Gills, at the AWWA conference who competed in Top Ops, a jeopardy-style competition testing depth of knowledge in the drinking water field. The team of three who won third place overall; and
WHEREAS, the professionalism and knowledge of the City of Napa’s drinking water professionals exhibited not only during Drinking Water Week, but all 52 weeks of the years and are hereby recognized and celebrated.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that I, Scott Sedgley, Mayor of the City of Napa, along with the City Council, do hereby recognize and celebrate National Drinking Water Week from May 3 – 9, 2026 and we call upon the residents of the City of Napa and neighboring communities to help protect our source waters from pollution, practice water conservation, and to be stewards of the water infrastructure for our current and future generations.
Dated: May 5, 2026
SCOTT SEDGLEY, MAYOR
CITY OF NAPA