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We deliver
Full five-gallon glass arrives at your door and goes right onto your cooler.
Indian River, Michigan · Est. 2026
Water, the way the ground gives it.
True Artesian is natural spring water from Indian River — harvested the moment it surfaces, sealed in glass, and carried to your door. This is who we are, the problem we set out to fix, and how a glass bottle fixes it.
- Indian River spring
- Always in glass
- Never in plastic
- Est. 2026
Who we are
A family, a spring, and one stubborn rule.
True Artesian started with the family that runs the riverside RV park in Indian River — on the same ground where the spring rises. For years they watched the water surface on its own, clean and cold, and decided the world already had enough plastic in it.
An artesian spring is water under natural pressure: it reaches the surface by itself, with no well drilled and no pump forcing it up. We collect only what it offers, bottle it in glass right here, and bring it to homes and businesses across Northern Michigan — then take the empties back and start again.
Harvested, never pumped — exactly as the spring gives it.
The problem
Most bottled water is a plastic problem in disguise.
Convenience has a hidden cost. The plastic bottle doesn't just carry the water — it gets into it, and then it outlives all of us in a landfill. Here is what the research actually shows.
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plastic particles in a single liter of bottled water
A 2024 study counted an average of ~240,000 plastic fragments per liter — roughly 90% of them nanoplastics, small enough to cross into the bloodstream.
2024 · PNAS
1M+
plastic bottles bought worldwide every minute
About 480 billion plastic drink bottles are sold each year — close to a million every single minute, and still climbing.
Euromonitor
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of all the plastic ever made has been recycled
The rest is landfilled, burned, or left in the environment, where it fragments into microplastics rather than disappearing.
Science Advances · EPA
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of artery-plaque samples were found to contain microplastics
A 2024 study found micro- and nanoplastics in most plaque samples and linked them to higher rates of heart attack, stroke, and death — an association, not yet proof of cause.
2024 · NEJM
Plastic also leaches antimony into the water it holds — a little at room temperature, far more as it warms in a hot car or on a shelf. None of that belongs in a glass of water.
Always in glass.
Never in plastic.
Our answer
So we built the opposite.
Every problem with bottled water traces back to the same place — the plastic. So we took it out of the equation, start to finish.
No plastic, ever
Nothing for the water to shed.
Our water never touches plastic — not the bottle, not a filter housing. There is no PET to shed nanoplastics into it, and nothing to leach antimony as it warms.
Inert, reusable glass
A material that gives nothing back.
Glass is non-porous and chemically stable, so it holds the water without changing how it tastes — and it can be recycled and refilled again and again with no loss of quality.
A spring, not a pump
Harvested the moment it surfaces.
Artesian water rises under its own pressure. We collect what the ground offers, at the source, so the water keeps the clean mineral character it left the earth with.
The closed loop
One bottle, used a hundred times.
Reuse is the single most effective way to cut plastic waste — refillable systems alone could eliminate roughly a third of plastic pollution by 2040. Our whole model is built on it.
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You enjoy
Clean, cold spring water — the same at your table as it was at the source.
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We collect
On the next run we carry the empties back with us. No jug in the trash.
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We refill
Each bottle is sanitized and refilled at the spring, then sent right back out.
UNEP · Turning off the Tap, 2023
What we deliver
Spring water, in glass, to your door.
From a single returnable bottle on your counter to a standing dispenser at the office — every drop arrives in glass and leaves in glass.
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5-Gallon Glass Delivery
Returnable five-gallon glass bottles, brought to your door and set right onto your cooler or stand. The cornerstone of the True Artesian routine.
- Heavy, returnable five-gallon glass — never plastic
- Set onto your cooler or dispenser, empties carried out
- Flexible weekly, biweekly, or monthly schedules
- Indian River and the surrounding inland lakes
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12 oz Retail Glass
Single-serve artesian water in slim glass bottles — built for cafés, farm stands, hotels, and events that care how they show up.
- Crisp, cold, single-serve glass bottles
- Wholesale cases for shops, cafés, and lodging
- A plastic-free option for events and weddings
- Custom-quantity orders welcome
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Office & Business
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Office & Business
Standing dispensers and scheduled glass refills for waiting rooms, offices, gyms, and job sites — the plastic-free water cooler.
- Hot-and-cold and room-temperature dispensers
- Scheduled refills, billed simply by the month
- A cleaner look for client-facing spaces
- Quotes sized to your team
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Bottle Exchange & Return
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Bottle Exchange & Return
We collect every empty, sanitize it at the source, refill it, and bring it back. Nothing is thrown away — the bottle just keeps coming home.
- Empties collected on every delivery
- Sanitized and refilled at the spring
- A closed loop with zero single-use waste
- The way water was meant to be handled
Where we deliver
Around Indian River and the inland lakes.
We run our glass route across the top of the mitt — from Indian River out to Cheboygan, Petoskey, and the lakes in between. If you’re nearby and not on the list, ask. We’re adding stops as we grow.
88888888- 01Indian River
- 02Cheboygan
- 03Topinabee
- 04Wolverine
- 05Pellston
- 06Petoskey
- 07Burt Lake
- 08Mullett Lake
The research
The figures on this page come from peer-reviewed and authoritative sources.
- Nanoplastics in bottled water — Qian et al., PNAS (2024)
- Microplastics in artery plaque — Marfella et al., NEJM (2024)
- Plastic produced & recycled — Geyer et al., Science Advances (2017)
- Antimony leaching from PET — Westerhoff et al., Water Research (2008)
- Reuse & plastic pollution — UNEP, Turning off the Tap (2023)
- Bottles sold worldwide — Euromonitor, via National Geographic (2017)
- Artesian water defined — USGS Water Science School
The science on micro- and nanoplastics is still emerging; we describe findings as studies report them. True Artesian’s point is simpler — keep plastic out of the water entirely.
Start service
Start your glass delivery.
Tell us where you are and how much water you go through. We'll set you up on a schedule, drop off your first glass, and handle the empties from there.
5-gallon glass, delivered
from$14/ month
Scales with your bottles and frequency — you set the pace.
- Never a drop of plastic
- Empties always collected
- Adjust or pause anytime