Icelandic Glacial Water
I haven’t written much about drinks or things that cure my thirst, lately, but here’s one that I wanted to talk about. Icelandic Glacial Water, the bottled water sponsor for Project by Project’s Plate by Plate event, was featured at this year’s event.
What can say about water, except that you don’t want to say too much. If you have to mention too many things about it, then there’s something wrong. You want water to be tasteless, orderless, colorless, and basically bland. When you start getting unexpected surprises in your water – that’s when you know you have something wrong.
Though, water can have refreshness and to some people, not myself included, a little flavor. My personal venture with the Icelandic spring water was a refreshing. I know it was a relief to have IGW at the event.
I learned that their source comes from replenish-able source that is a fraction of what goes to the ocean. This is an important facet about their water. They don’t use a spring that comes up from under the ground which is finite. ICW uses rainfall that is gradually filtered through the Icelandic mountain streams through the underground spring. The rainwater to spring cycle is an ongoing process in Iceland.
From what I’ve learned and unlike other bottle waters, IGW uses 100% carbon neutral factory to produce its containers. I know a lot of people are concerned that other companies use containers that have to be imported in, and thus leaving a large carbon footprint on our world. Its terrible to think about the other companies that much use fossil fuels to bring in materials and components to produce something, all the while they claim to be helping the world with this and that. But Icelandic Glacial Water does not. And you have to respect that, coming from Iceland – which is pretty remote in itself.
Icelandic Glacial Water http://www.icelandicglacial.com
