A new resource company is calling Port Alberni home.
Thunderbird Spirit Water takes water from Uchucklesaht’s sacred springs near Henderson Lake and bottles it for high end water connoisseurs.
The water is so good, it won a gold medal at the recent ‘Fine Waters Summit’ in Stockholm Sweden, according to Uchucklesaht Chief Operating Officer Scott Coulson.
“We would always drink it when we were at the spring – so fresh and clean – and we would often say ‘we should bottle this’, so that’s where it started,” he said. “Now we’re on the world map.”
Thunderbird Spirit Water beat out the most expensive bottled water in the world, which comes from icebergs and sells for $140 a bottle.
Coulson says the water is the ultimate renewable resource, coming from one of the rainiest places in the world, and part of the profit from sales of the high-end water, will go towards restoring safe drinking water to many Canadian First Nations communities.
Thunderbird Spirit Water is currently being bottled on the lower mainland, but they are negotiating with the Port Alberni Port Authority to bring their equipment and associated jobs here.
Thunderbird Spirit Water sells for $7 a bottle from their base at the Thunderbird building on Argyle Street.
