Ice Mountain (water) - Ice Mountain

Ice Mountain is a brand of bottled water from the NestlÃ© company, produced and marketed primarily in the Midwest region of the United States. Ice Mountain sources their water from two groundwater wells at Sanctuary Spring in Mecosta County, Michigan and/or Evart Spring in Evart, Michigan. The water is drawn from underground aquifers using wells and is not drawn from surface springs, rivers, or mountain run-off as the packaging would imply.

Sizes and packages

Ice Mountain water comes in the following sizes:

100-US-gallon (380Â l; 83Â impÂ gal) jug
90-US-gallon (340Â l; 75Â impÂ gal) container
3-US-gallon (11Â l; 2.5Â impÂ gal) container
10.5 liter bottle
2.5-US-gallon (9.5Â l; 2.1Â impÂ gal) dispenser
3 liter stackable bottle
700 mL
20 US fluid ounces (590Â ml)
500 mL (16.9 US fluid ounces)
11-US-fluid-ounce (330Â ml) Aquapod
9 US fluid ounces (270Â ml)
8-US-fluid-ounce (240Â ml) fluoridated plast

Delivery

In some areas, home and office delivery of bottled water may be available, as stated on the bottles.

Water sourcing issues

Ice Mountain has been part of the Great Lakes water use debate in which diversion of the basin's primary and secondary water for export has been controversial. In 2004, a Michigan court ordered pumping of Sanctuary springs to cease. After an appellate court overturned the cease and desist order, the company and local groups came to an agreement to pump only 218 US gallons (830Â l; 182Â impÂ gal) per minute, which is comparable to other local beverage operations. NestlÃ© has run into similar local opposition when trying to locate a new source location near the headwaters of the White River in the upper lower peninsula of Michigan.