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Iceland Pure Spring Water

Icelandic bottled water brand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ5985667 ↗
Source-derived summary

Iceland Spring water is an Icelandic brand of bottled water, bottled by Iceland Spring ehf. of Reykjavík, Iceland. The water is sourced from Heiðmörk, the same source as tap water for the city of Reykjavík. It is more expensive in Iceland, where it is bottled, than as an imported product elsewhere. Iceland Spring claim the water is chemically basic with a pH of 8.88.

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The public source identifies “Iceland Pure Spring Water” as icelandic bottled water brand. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Iceland, Pure and Spring.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 64-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Iceland, Pure and Spring providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5985667. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Iceland Pure Spring Water” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.