Pure Water. Protected Springs. A Healthier Planet.
We started Alive Waters because we got tired of watching plastic pile up. Everything we do — from the Italian glass we bottle in to the 11% of profits we give away — is in service of one goal: making plastic water bottles a thing of the past.
Why we exist
The story behind every jug we deliver.
Three commitments, every jug
- 29,963,496
- plastic bottles avoided
- 100%
- natural spring water
- 11%
- profits donated
Our commitment to people
Every part of Alive Waters is built around treating you the way we'd want to be treated.
Water you can verify
Every batch is third-party tested for contaminants, minerals, and pH. Your annual water quality report is one click away — we publish them, not bury them.
Glass that lasts
Our 2.5-gallon jugs are handcrafted in Italy from food-grade glass thick enough to survive a decade of weekly deliveries. They're not disposable. They're heirloom.
Delivery that respects you
Real-time tracking, contactless handoff, drivers who know your building. Text us at (800) 270-6417 and a human answers — usually within minutes.
Pricing that's honest
No subscriptions you can't cancel. No surprise fees. No bottles-and-deposits trick. The price you see is the price you pay — and your first jug is on us.
Our commitment to the planet
Plastic water bottles should be obsolete. Here's what we do instead.
Reusable, refillable, returnable
Our Italian glass jugs are designed to be reused hundreds of times. We pick them up, sanitize them, refill them, and bring them back. The same jug, the same shape, for years. No new bottles made, no old bottles thrown out.
Local springs, not long-haul trucking
We source from naturally protected springs in the regions we serve. No water piped across continents. No bottles shipped empty from halfway around the world to be filled and shipped back. Just clean water, with a short, smart route to your door.
Carbon-aware delivery
We optimize delivery routes daily to cut empty miles. Where possible, our local delivery fleets run on low-emission vehicles. Our packaging is recycled, recyclable, and never plastic.
A growing counter, not a marketing claim
Every jug we deliver adds to the count of plastic bottles kept out of the waste stream. We publish the number — 29,963,496 and counting — on every product page, every quarter, in real time. If we're not moving it, we want to know.
11% of every dollar goes to Find A Spring
Where we've been
The story so far — what we've built, and where we're going.
2013 — The mountain moment
Our founder fills a glass bottle from a spring in Big Bear, California, and wonders why the family next to him is loading plastic into their car instead.
May 2016 — First delivery
Alive Waters ships its very first jug from a small warehouse. One customer. One jug. One delivery route.
2018 — Find A Spring is born
We launch the Find A Spring Foundation and publish the first public database of natural springs in the United States.
2020 — Opal Springs partnership
We partner with the Opal Springs Water Company in Culver, Oregon — naturally protected spring water drawn from the ancient volcanic geology of the Deschutes River basin.
2022 — Blue Spring joins
A second spring source — Blue Spring in Alabama — comes online, expanding delivery across the Southeast and reducing trucking distance to our southern customers.
2024 — 10M bottles avoided
We cross 10 million single-use plastic bottles avoided — a milestone that quietly became our most-used proof point. The counter is now past 29 million and growing.
Today — 4,200+ households
More than 4,200 families drink from our springs every week across five states (CA, TX, FL, NY, NJ), with Oregon expanding in Q4 2026.
Our principles
If we can't keep these promises, we don't deserve your kitchen counter. We hold ourselves to them publicly.
No plastic, ever
We will never bottle in plastic. Ever.
Public water reports
We will only source from naturally protected springs with public water quality reports.
Transparent giving
We will always publish what we give to Find A Spring Foundation — by year, by dollar.
Two-click cancel
We will never lock you into a subscription you can't cancel in two clicks.
Closed-loop jugs
We will pick up, sanitize, and reuse every jug we deliver — not landfill, not recycle down-cycle.
Live public counters
We will keep our counter public: bottles avoided, households served, springs protected.
Where we are, in numbers
- 29,963,496
- plastic bottles avoided
- 4,200+
- households served weekly
- 11%
- profits to Find A Spring
- 8,500+
- springs mapped worldwide
Ready to stop buying plastic water?
Your first 2.5-gallon glass jug is on us. We'll deliver it to your door, fill it weekly, and pick it up when you need a fresh one.