Spring water is groundwater, and represents only 1.7% of the earth’s water. It is pumped from groundwater/spring sources that are being depleted at a rate faster than the earth’s aquifers can replenish themselves. Our population, and therefore demand, is increasing, but our fresh water resources are not. Spring water companies are often at odds with municipal authorities who want to protect their resources for the local population instead of allowing these resources to be withdrawn and shipped to far-off places.
Fun Fact - ...about 96.5% of the Earth's water is stored in the global oceans. Approximately 1.7% is stored in the polar icecaps, glaciers, and permanent snow, and another 1.7% is stored in groundwater, lakes, rivers, streams, and soil. –NASA
Tap water would be best if it were consistently clean and energy-efficient. Tap water or municipal water, often travels a long way to get to us. It evaporates along the way, is pumped over mountains, and needs to be treated, which includes the addition of chlorine and fluoride. Tap water is partially filtered before it is delivered to you, although it’s not always as clean as one might think. Then there are those 100-year old (and often leaky) pipes through which it travels; this doesn’t help the contamination problem, either.
Fun Fact - Lake Mead loses almost 900,000 acre-feet a year to evaporation. That's enough for 1.8 million homes. It's two times more than what San Diego's urban users consumed in 2010. – Rob Davis
Rain water? Well, rain water is what fills up our aquifers. I guess the argument could be made that rain water that is destined for the ocean could be captured and harvested, but right now, most bottled rain waters are adding to the aquifer depletion in areas that really need to see aquifer levels start to rise again. We are inflicting irreparable damage on many of our country's precious aquifers. We have the resources to let these aquifers heal, and letting rain fall on these grounds is instrumental in the healing process.
Fun Fact - Groundwater is replenished by precipitation and, depending on the local climate and geology, is unevenly distributed in both quantity and quality. When rain or snow melts, some of the water evaporates, some is transpired by plants, some flows overland and collects in streams, and some infiltrates into pores or cracks of the soil and rocks. -USGS
OK, so what about ocean water? Well, ocean water doesn’t deplete the aquifers and there’s plenty of it. SolarRain® Ocean uses local water (no cross-country transportation), and it’s purified with vapor distillation by using an efficient type of solar thermal energy as its energy source. The system emulates nature’s water cycle of evaporation and condensation, converting salt water to pure fresh water, ready to be bottled and sold locally – by, for and in support of the San Diego community.
People need a “fundamental, cultural attitude change about water supply in the Southwest.”
“It’s not abundant, it’s not reliable, it’s not going to always be there.” – Patricia Mulroy,
Water Research Foundation.
Choosing good water is essential –
good for you and good for the planet.
Ninety-seven percent of the Earth’s water is ocean water, and there’s plenty of it.
Ocean sourced water gives you a balance of naturally occurring minerals – Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium – and electrolytes, no additives needed. That’s a big health benefit. Our signature water, SolarRain® Ocean,
gives you a clean, healthy,
great-tasting premium drinking water that is environmentally friendly.
Let a SolarRain® water be your water of choice.
The natural water cycle –
we actually put it into practice.
Many bottled waters refer to the natural cycle in one way or another, but we actually employ its principles.
SolarRain® emulates the hydrologic cycle. The process of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, water’s return to the ocean and back to evaporation is nature’s way of filtering out impurities and replenishing the water supply.
We begin with water from local sources. The water first passes through sand filters similar to the natural process of ground water filtering through sediment layers. It then goes through screen filters on its way to the evaporation tank where it is heated and evaporated using solar thermal energy at temperatures lower than water’s boiling point. The moist air rises as a “cloud” and condenses into purified “rain” in the condensing tank. To insure SolarRain’s purity, the water goes through a carbon filter, 2 sub-micron filters, and a UV filter. As a final step, the water is ozonated before being bottled into pure, great-tasting premium drinking water. *
Ocean, sun, cloud, SolarRain . . .
just like Mother Nature makes rain.
*Solar Rain® Zero is produced with standard distillation processes.
Solar Rain® Pure uses local municipal sources.
What’s in it & When was it made?
What’s in it & When was it made?
Many bottled water companies are not transparent when it comes to revealing their sources or telling you what’s in their water.
If it weren’t for those date codes with a 2-year window, you wouldn’t know when it was made.
SolarRain® believes you have a right to know what you’re drinking. Our water is harvested locally, vaporized and purified locally, then sold throughout San Diego County. Our date code will tell you that it was made fresh. In fact, enter the date code to the right, and you will discover when it was made and what is actually in it. We have each batch independently tested, then post the results. You will find SolarRain® contains no chemicals, hormones, or medical prescription waste.
free of the bad stuff • full of the good stuff
Combining innovation with nature, SolarRain® offers you balance:
Lifestyle & convenience vs being
environmentally conscious?
You don’t have to choose.
Choosing SolarRain® lets you live your life without having to choose. SolarRain® waters are clean and pure waters locally available and made with the environment in mind. It’s healthier than San Diego’s tap water which made the EWG’s list of 10 cities with the worst tap water a couple of years ago. No doubt there’s been improvement since then, but as our regular testing reports show, SolarRain® is consistently clean drinking water with a balance of minerals and electrolytes, naturally occurring in ocean sourced water.
Refillables are great, but there are times when they aren’t convenient,
or you’ve run out, or the occasion just calls for something a little more appropriate.
So, when you do buy bottled water, make a SolarRain® water your choice and help make your San Diego community a better place.
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