Videos on the site show founder Mukhande Singh (née Christopher Sanborn) hiking barefoot in the woods, cupping his hands, and drinking flowing spring water.
The source for Live Spring Water, however, is hardly off the beaten path – regardless of Singh’s promotional videos showing him hiking through the forest.
"The best tasting drinking water" in Oregon While it may sound preposterous to pay a minimum of $64 for a delivery of 10 gallons of tap water, the general manager of the Deschutes Valley Water District is quick to point out that his agency’s water isn’t just any tap water.
Opal Springs is so pure that the Deschutes Valley Water District doesn’t have to do any treatment of its water in order to comply with the Oregon Health Authority’s standards.
But contrary to the claim on Live Spring Water’s website, the water doesn’t go directly from the spring source into the company’s glass jugs and orbs.
From there, it’s pumped to residents’ homes and to the sites of two water-bottling companies, Earth2o and Opal Springs Bottling Company.
The latter bottles plastic water bottles and jugs under its own brand; it also bottles the spring water in glass jugs for Live Spring Water.
But Opal Springs Bottling Company operations manager Daryl Lonien wrote KOIN 6 News in an email that Live Spring Water is "not currently accepting any new customers."
16 Photos KOIN 6 News contacted California’s Department of Public Health and learned the agency issued an April 5 letter to Opal Springs Bottling Company, which was distributing Live Spring Water in California, explaining the requirements for bottled water in California.
Singh, using his legal name of Christopher Sanborn, first filed to register his business in California in June 2015 under the name Fountain of Truth Spring Water LLC; the status is listed as suspended.