It takes rain water approximately 45 years to filter through 8 geologic formations including clay, gravel and limestone to reach the sandstone aquifer which was laid down 170 million years ago. Michigan Mineral is a natural artesian water and is considered an excellent mineral water . Michigan Mineral is tastier and more thirst-quenching than any other water on the market, however it is not a spring water and it is not purified by distillation or reverse osmosis, which removes everything from the water including minerals, which are essential for good health. These processes leaves the water flat and tasteless and do not produce good drinking waters. Unlike Spring waters, which are by definition surface waters, Michigan Mineral is drawn directly from its deep, protected source, ozonated and micro-filtered in order to disinfect and cleanse the water of everything except its minerals, which are what make water taste so good.
Ozone is comprised of three oxygen molecules which acts as an oxidizer and bacterial disinfectant.
When injected into the water, ozone purges it of everything except its dissolved minerals. This is something that water coming from a water vending machine can never provide. However, please be aware that you must wait two hours before drinking after refilling your jugs to avoid the bitter taste that ozone gives the water. Rain water travels through three separate layers of clay, a twenty foot thick layer of gravel, an eighteen foot thick layer of limestone to a fifty two foot layer of porous sandstone from which Michigan Mineral is drawn. The clay layers are very important because they serve to trap and filter any kind of pollutants that may be in the air and upper layers of the soil.