Virtually every other bottled water company uses boreholes or pumps to bottle their water. This means they are not actually selling spring water, but well water instead. Tourmaline water is gravity fed to the bottling facility, just 50 feet away from the natural spring itself! The only thing Tourmaline Spring Water touches before it’s bottled is stainless steel. Mother Nature herself does the filtering, to a degree and complexity that no man-made machine could possibly duplicate.