“If you can’t get to the mountains, we’ll bring the mountains to you.” The company that makes Arrowhead^® Brand Mountain Spring Water has been in existence since 1894 and joined Nestlé Waters North America in 1987, adding its name to a current portfolio of 14 preeminent bottled water brands. Since 1992, Nestlé Waters North America has been part of the Nestlé S.A./Switzerland group of companies. Today, in California alone, where one out of three residents drink bottled water, Arrowhead^® Brand Mountain Spring Water is the most popular bottled water of choice.

Heritage...since 1894
High on the south slope of California’s San Bernardino Mountains, the home of Arrowhead’s first cold-water spring, is a remarkable slice of the natural world. Hot springs bubble up from the earth’s surface. Caves can be found filled with steam. Several cold-water streams carry some of the world’s most delicious spring water from the mountains above. A rock formation several acres in size, shaped like an arrowhead, points to these springs.

According to a Native American legend, an arrow from heaven burned the formation on the mountainside to show tribes where they could be healed.

During the mid-nineteenth century, “Dr.” David Noble Smith claimed that a saint-like being appeared before him and told of a far-off land with exceptional climate and curative waters, marked by a gigantic arrowhead. Smith’s search for that unique arrowhead formation began in Texas and eventually ended at Arrowhead springs in California in 1857.

By 1889 word of the springs, along with a hotel on the site – and belief of the health effect of the water from the springs – had grown considerably.

Hotel guests often raved about the crystal-clear water from the cold springs, which prompted Seth Marshall to set up a bottling operation in the hotel’s basement. By 1905, water from the cold springs was being shipped to Los Angeles.

Today, consumers reach for Arrowhead^® Brand Mountain Spring Water because it embodies all that is good about the mountains.

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