HOW GOOD IS IT? Indian Peaks Springwater has won both local and international awards. In the past five years, Westword, Denver's alternative newsweekly, chose Indian Peaks "Best Local Bottle Water;" and the "Toast to the Tap" International Water Tasting and Competition--the largest and most prestigious competition in the world--selected our water ahead of the products of such well-known market giants as the Perrier Group and Vittel Bonne, placing us fifth among bottlers in Europe, Canada and the United States. No water west of the Mississippi finished as high as our high altitude Rocky Mountain springwater. "We were elated to be judged among the best tasting waters in the world," says Steve Dolson. "The sweetest part is that we beat out some very stiff local competition which we figured would be the toughest, because as everyone around here knows, Rocky Mountain springwater is the best water in the world." That was probably the consensus of the settlers who first drank from the springs high in the mountains west of Boulder, Colorado in the 1850s and passed on word of it from generation to generation. Homesteaders learned of the springs from an Arapaho Indian chief named Niwot. A great and peaceful man, Chief Niwot helped early settlers survive by passing on mountain secrets known only to his people. That was the case with our springwater, which flows from a spring near a meadow where the Arapaho traditionally made their hunting camp each summer. Local lore has it that the spirit of the mountains grows strong in all who drink there. That may be so, but all we can say for sure is that the taste of our water is legendary: cold, clear and crisp as a Rocky Mountain morning. And while you can't really put a yardstick to that kind of quality, lab analysis points to the fresh alpine goodness that spills from every bottle of Indian Peaks Springwater. With a pH at the springhead of 7.0 and dissolved solids of only 21 parts per million, our water is as pure and great tasting as nature intended water to be.   Click on "There's More" for techincal information about our water.