Nature's

"Big Spring"

Water

A bit of Big Spring History

Located in Gordon County, Georgia, Nature's "Big Spring" Water is a historical landmark. For hundreds of years, the Cherokee Indian tribes used Big Spring as one of their main water sources in North Georgia.

When the famous Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto came through the area the local Chieftain told de Soto of the "Spring of Life".  Hernando could not wait to visit the spring thinking he had finally discovered the "Fountain of Youth". 

According to his historical journals the spring was not the fountain of youth he sought. Never the less, he spent several weeks at the Big Spring, with his troops, resting up and letting them all heal from the various maladies they had encountered in the new world.

During the Civil War, both the Confederate and the Union troops camped at the Big Spring and resupplied their water wagons from the crystal clear spring. Historic landmarks have been placed at the spring commemorating their use of Big Spring's water during the Civil War.

For a millennium, the Big Spring has been emerging from deep within Mother Earth producing 11.5 Million gallons of water daily. Emerging from thousands of feet below the surface the pure spring water is a constant 54 degrees year round. 

Even with the recent 3 year drought it has not slowed the amount of water flow one ounce. This adds further proof  that Big Spring originates deep within the earth and from thousands of miles to the north.

Taste it, you'll see!!!

As the Big Spring flows through the earth it picks up trace minerals that give Nature's "Big Spring" Water its unique taste.  In all of the taste tests conducted, over the last 10+ years, the Nature's "Big Spring" Water has consistently been chosen by consumers as the best tasting water every time!

Nature's "Big Spring" Water is tested annually by certified laboratories and certified as such regarding its purity. We further test our water daily to ensure the quality always remains the same.

How do we process our product, you ask?

Before Nature's "Big Spring" Water is bottled, it is first filtered as it is pumped in from the spring. The filters consist of 18 charcoal filters and dozens of additional filters each with a smaller pore size. The filtered water is then subjected to an Ultraviolet (UV) treatment process. This assures that any organisms that may not have been trapped by the filters are rendered harmless. Finally the water is ozonated as the bottles are filled to assure our product's purity.

     NOTE:  Ozone is an approved sanitizer for drinking water by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Georgia Department of Agriculture. Ozone does not affect the taste of Nature's "Big Spring" Water and rapidly evaporates once the bottle is opened. Rest assured most water companies use ozone as a sanitizer unless they are bottling filtered tap water.

From Where is YOUR bottled water derived?

There seems to be a lot of confusion among consumers regarding various types of water that are found on grocery store shelves. We are often asked what all these terms mean. There are essentially 5 types of drinking water:

• Spring
• Artesian water
• Purified water
• Filtered water
• Distilled water - just to name a few.

Spring Water - Spring water comes from a registered and tested natural spring. Most springs are shallow - only a few feet to a few hundred feet in depth. Very few springs, in the South, are more than a few hundred feet deep.

The water from a spring can come from within the area, or flow, under the earth's surface for 100's to even 1,000's of miles before surfacing. Nature's "Big Spring" Water falls into this category.

Distilled Water - Distilled water is produced by running water through a federally approved distillation process. This process removes all traces of minerals from the water leaving pure H20. It is one of the strongest processes of producing purified water - as per the regulation 21 CFR,
Section 165.110(a)(2)(iv) of the FDA drinking water regulations.

The "distillation" process must be FDA approved. Would you want to drink it?

Sure you can! In fact many doctor's recommend drinking distilled water to their patients. However, distilled water is typically utilized in testing labs and used in autoclave's for sterilizing equipment in the medical profession, etc. It is also used in a lot of manufacturing processes for its absolute purity.

Artesian Water - Artesian water originates from a well that has been drilled into an aquifer within the Earth's surface. The well may be just a few feet below the surface or could be 100's, or more, feet deep.

Wells are very susceptible to extended droughts, as they are in the shallower underground aquifers. Since Artesian water is basically well water, the water source is the aquifer (groundwater) that is under the geographic region where the well is located. Many companies use Artesian water as their source and may even misrepresent the product as "Spring Water".

Purified Water - Purified water is exactly what the name implies.  The water source is usually an undisclosed local source (probably the local water department) that is then run through a "purifier".

Typically these purifiers are special sets of filters and/or "RO" machines. Some plants even use distillers to purify their water. The process of reverse osmosis (RO) "purifies" the water by removing the minerals, chlorine, fluorides, etc. from the source water, just as distilling the water does.

Filtered Water - Filtered water is exactly what it implies. Typically the local Water Department is the source. This type of water is filtered which only removes the chlorine taste and the fluoride content. Unless the water is  ozonated before bottling, there is nothing to prohibit bacteria from growing since the chlorine has been removed.