Bottled Water Quality Introductions
Diamond Springs bottled water meets all federal and state health standards. The FDA regulates bottled water as a food product whereas the EPA regulates tap water as provided by water utilities. Standards of quality enacted by the FDA for bottled water must be as protective of the public health as EPA's standards (known as Maximum Contaminant Levels) for tap water. Ensuring the safety of the water is our primary objective in providing our product to your home or office.

Spring Water Source
Diamond Springs bottling facilities use protected springs in Virginia and North Carolina as the sources of our water. Underground water flows up through cracks in the earth and goes through a natural purification process as it runs through layer after layer of rock. This spring water is completely safe to drink. We test our sources regularly to verify that they are of extremely high quality.

How Bottled Water Is Prepared
Bottled water is protected by a multi-barrier approach, which includes steps such as source protection and monitoring, and treatment such as micron filtration, distillation, ozonation, or other appropriate processing measures. Bottled water products labeled as spring water must come from protected sources, which are monitored frequently. Bottled water may also come from treated municipal supplies and employ processing methods, such as reverse osmosis, micron filtration, distillation, and ozonation to remove any chemical and microbiological contaminants, including cryptosporidium.
- Multiple stages of filtration include carbon filtration, micron filtration, and particulate filtration to remove sediment and suspended particles.
- For our distilled water, the water is heated to produce steam. The minerals are left behind and the steam is condensed for a pure, mineral-free distilled product.
-All of our bottled water products are ozonated. We use ozone instead of chlorine because it leaves no residual and it does not cause a taste and odor problem. Ozone is oxygen (O3 to be exact) which is bubbled through the water just before it goes into a clean, sanitized bottle. Within a few hours after the bottle has been filled and capped, the ozone dissipates or converts back to the same form of oxygen that we breathe (O2).

Diamond Springs Water Testing
Our company regularly tests our water for up to 58 organic chemicals and up to 28 inorganic chemicals that are regulated by the FDA. As an extra safeguard we also test for numerous unregulated contaminants. No contaminant was detected above FDA's limits in our testing as demonstrated below. There have been no violations of any FDA Standard of Qual