This has been all over the news but just in case you haven’t heard about it yet, Aquafina water bottle labels will be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water. Dasani also comes from tap water and is then purified. I’d like to compile a list of all bottled water brands sold in Canada and their water source. Note that this may be different from the US. For example Nestle Pure Life comes from Aberfoyle Spring Water in Canada but tap water in US. So please make sure the info you mention is relevant to Canada.
I’ll update the list and add more details as I get comments. Also please correct me if I’m wrong.
Pepsi Co Aquafina — purified tap water from Mississauga
Coca Cola Dasani — tap water from Brampton filtered 5 times
Nestle Pure Life — Aberfoyle Spring Water
Danone Evian — Spring Water
Montclair — from Cedar Valley Springs, Erin, Ontario, Canada — Natural Spring Water
FIJI Water — Artesian well in the Yaqara Range of the Nakauvadra Mountains
Ice River Springs — Natural Spring Water
It says source situated in Feversham, Grey Country, Ontario
Strangely, this water tastes sweet.. There’s no sodium in it.
… others?
Thanks to Kaylakat, adora, Sirop, Lili helping me out 
Kaylakat
adora
Sirop
Lili
Justine
Deliliah
BCteagirl
Denise
Dave
Sabrina
Paul Seifried
Alex
Steve
Malek
Lillian
james j sullivan
bob boberson
We have iceberg water here in Newfoundland!
I never liked the idea of buying bottled water. Paying for water that you can get from the tap is silly. There is a natural spring fairly close to my house and the water their is great. I’ve always preferred using a refillable bottle for water.
Dasani Canada is tap water from Brampton filtered 5 times. I just need 2 more filters to make my own Dasani at home.
They won an IgNobel Prize in 2004 for Chemistry:
“The Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain, for using advanced technology to convert ordinary tap water into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to consumers.“
http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2004
San Benedetto, from Italy.
May I add that FUJI is bottled in a country where most of the locals don’t have access to clean water!
p.s. Lewis Black on Water: http://youtube.com/watch?v=yNGWn-aWn5g
Ice River Springs — Natural Spring Water
It says source situated in Feversham, Grey Country, Ontario
Strangely, this water tastes sweet.. There’s no sodium in it.
From my Montclair bottle:
Coming from Cedar Valley Springs, Erin, Ontario, Canada
–Natural Spring Water–
Bottled for Nestlé Waters Canada
It’s funny… I always hated the flavour of both Dasani and Aquafina, and recently I’ve been buying Evian exclusively when possible, for its finer taste… now I know why.
I buy Nestle’s Pure Life water all the time, merely because I can’t drink the local water (it makes me sick to my stomach, ‘less I use a filter) and I like the convenience of drinking from a bottle. If I have to take a glass, and fill it from the filter on the tap, I’ll drink maybe.. one or two glasses a day, tops, and instead drink tonnes of pop or other liquids. If I just have to grab a bottle, I’ll drink it all the time, and even refill the bottles from the filter.
I don’t know why, that’s just the way my oddness has given me one more bill in my life. =\
I’ve always disliked the taste of dasani. I know some people like it.
You should add to your list that Aquafina uses a 7-step filtration process.
Since spring water can be contaminated from runoff from local farm, etc. after rain storms, I would be interested to know if the spring water brands do anything to filter or clean their water to ensure its cleanliness. Personally, I am know with brands being from tap water as long as they are filtered.
I agree with the first poster.. in most cases bottled water is an incredible waste of money. It is also very damaging to the environment… think of all the waste trucking around trucks full of *water* when you have water where you are already! It always struck me as funny in a sad sort of way.…
I started Real Water because i could not find a decent bottle of water. My company is the only on demand bottle water company in the World. Plus i have won awards for having the best tasting Water in North America and i missed the World title by three points. My water comes from more than 300 feet below the surface we do nothing to the water in comes out of the ground goes into a bottle then goes in to a box right away this water has never seen sunlight, we only bottle water when you call and place an order. I have no desire to be a big company I enjoy being able to make the claim if you can find a better bottle of water anywhere in the World buy it.
REAL WATER is setting a new standard of bottled water
There are no springs available to me where I live. My tap water is barely passable at best; filters don’t improve taste, and when there’s an algae bloom on our municipal reservoir the SMELL of the water turns my stomach. So, where does that leave me? Living on bottled water — and I love it. Maybe tap water is only “pennies a glass”, but my bottled water is only 15 cents and it holds twice as much so I don’t see a big difference. Plus, if you add in the cost of your on-tap or Brita filter, the gap closes even more. The environmental complaint about bottles in the landfill is relevant to ANY consumer product on the planet — we need people to recycle more. As for BCTeagirl’s worry about trucking — look at vegetables (especially organic), cars, grain, forestry products, oil (and the recent burst pipe in her area), etc. We need to change a LOT of things, and water’s at the bottom of my list unless you’re talking about improving the quality of our lakes, rivers and oceans.
My questions in about the store brands. Lately I’ve been purchasing the Dominion/A&P Equality brand, source: Hillsburg Ontario. I have no idea how to read the analysis and I know nothing about the filteration process. Can anyone provide any insight?
All i can say is that i hate dasani. if you read the label it states “remineralized water”. the sodium levels are higher then other waters…think about it. sodium (aka salt) makes you thristy…you drink more dasani…you’re more thirsty…is it any wonder that coca-cola marketed this product? it’s just as addictive as caffiene in coke.
My family has been drinking “REAL CANADIAN” natural spring water for some time now, purchased at Loblaws/No Frills.
We store our water outside in our shed, and recently, after the last cold weather (-17 c) we had, I noticed that almost all of the bottles had frozen solid, with the exception of a couple that felt like they had been in the refridgerator.
I tried to contact the customer service department @ 1–800-495‑5111 but was told by a recording, that I had called a number which could not be reached from our calling area.
Just wanted to put this out there, to see if anyone has seen this happen, and if so, WHY?
“We store our water outside in our shed, and recently, after the last cold weather (-17 c) we had, I noticed that almost all of the bottles had frozen solid,.…”~ Paul Seifried
Would water not freeze at 0 c Paul? I am not sure what the issue would be.
Anyway, bottle water is popular because of the experiences of places like Walkerton Ontario. Seven people died and thousands became sick (some with permanent physical damage).
Other than the bad taste, the safety of our water system is not that convincing yet. I hope that it may change.
Perhaps some of the bottles didn’t freeze because they were in the center of the case which may have insulated them from the cold longer?
“We store our water outside in our shed, and recently, after the last cold weather (-17 c) we had, I noticed that almost all of the bottles had frozen solid,…. I tried to contact the customer service department @ 1–800-495‑5111 but.… â€~ Paul Seifried
dear there is somthing very strange
I bought from SuperSotre in Winnipeg
a NO NAME Anti-Freez/Coolant and the phon number is
1–800-495‑5111
your unfrozen ““REAL CANADIANâ€natural spring water “
and this anti freez product with the same phone number????!!!!
dear there is somthing very strange
I bought from SuperSotre in Winnipeg
a NO NAME Anti-Freez/Coolant and the phon number is
1–800-495‑5111
your unfrozen ““REAL CANADIANâ€natural spring water â€
and this anti freez product with the same phone number????!!!!~ Malek
Why would it be very strange that a retailers house brands would have one consumer information number? All national brand manufacturers use one number for different products.
That phone number you listed 1–800-495‑5111 is more like a customer service number — calls go into a general call center. More like a complaints department or info on where to buy a product. If you check, every single no name product has the same phone number on it — from instant rice to cat food to hand soap. Somehow I do not think you would get the informationyou require and hopefully they would be able to direct you to another source.
Ice Berg Water? Here in Ontario we have Ice Berg VODKA!!! lol.…..Does anyone know the name of the bottled water that was given out at the Rolling Stones concert at Downsview Park and also, I believe, at World Youth Day? It was started by some people from a First Nation in easter Ontario. I had a couple of empty bottles under the cupboard but the Mr. house cleaned before Christmas and threw them out.
hi I bought some of your bottled water and my family and I drank your water and became ill… while we were ill we were drinking the water not noing that it was the water that was making us sick while I was drinking the water my wife notice a white powder at the bottom of my bottle… we will be bring the water to our heath unit for testing and if there is somthing in the water that is unheathy we will be filing a lawsuit aginst your company
ok first off i would like to say i work at ice river springs which also produces real canadian and pc so if you were trying to contact them the number is 1 519 922 3303 but the reason they froze is probably because they are in the center of the case as stated above also we do not produce anti-freeze thats just the natural grocers phone number which is who has the contract with us.. and just so everyone knows all spring water is purified by ozone which is O3 which kills any living bactera in the water
oh sorry i left this out the reason you probably became ill is because you drank water before it sat for 24 hours which is required for the ozone to settle this will work as a laxitive if you drink it before that time period lapses
Thanks a lot for the article post.