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Poland Spring's website contains a detailed explainer of its "100% Natural Spring Water" and includes a map showing eight spring sources throughout southern and central Maine.
Poland Spring is a brand of bottled water produced in Poland, Maine.It is named after the natural spring in the town of Poland, Maine that it was originally drawn from. It was a subsidiary of the private equity firm, BlueTriton Brands, formerly Nestlé Waters North America, and sold in the United States, prior to its 2024 sale. [2]
The Fryeburg Water Company was ordered by the New Hampshire Utilities Commission (NHPUC) to provide the residents of East Conway, New Hampshire with Poland Spring bottled water (incidentally, the water that the utility sold to the Nestlé subsidiary) until the company fixed a pipeline that brought water from the spring in Maine to the homes in New Hampshire.
The actual Poland Spring in Maine, which the defendant's labels said is a source of Poland Spring water, "commercially ran dry" nearly 50 years ago, the complaint said.
Several towns in Maine have objected to the business practices of Poland Spring and its parent company Nestlé. In some towns, such as Fryeburg, Maine, Poland Spring actually buys 110 million US gal (420,000 m 3) a year from another company, the Fryeburg Water Co., and ships it to the Poland Spring bottling plant in Poland Spring. [25]
In 2017, for example, a class-action lawsuit against Nestlé Waters North America, which owned Poland Spring at the time, said the company was fooling customers into buying "ordinary groundwater."
Poland Spring is a bottled water brand that you’ll commonly find at grocery stores on the East Coast. Since its conception in 1845, Poland Spring has provided quality water with a TDS of around 100.
Framingham also has a Poland Spring bottling plant, and its owner Nestlé Waters North America opposed the ban as well. [40] Two towns that border Concord have passed bottled water bans similar to Concord's by-law: Sudbury on May 2, 2017; and Lincoln in March, 2018. Great Barrington in Berkshire county passed one in May, 2018.