Poland Spring water on display at a grocery store in Tarrytown, N.Y. A lawsuit accuses Nestlé Waters of having fraudulently marketed it as “spring water” when it is not.

Poland Spring runs the world's largest water bottling plant in Hollis, Maine. The 838,000-square-foot plant produces about 80 million cases of water every year, according to National Geographic.

A lawsuit is accusing Poland Spring of selling “ordinary groundwater” The suit highlights the opaque, controversial business of bottled water.

While rejecting some claims in the proposed class action, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven called it an open question whether Poland Spring qualified as spring water under the ...

Poland Spring Bottling Museum. Children also can operate a bottle conveyor system (the bottles are plastic), a hand pump and a bottle capper.

Poland Spring, a bottled-water brand ubiquitous in the Northeast, made a cameo in the Republican response to the president’s State of the Union address last month.In the middle of his speech ...

Poland Spring water was first packaged as a local elixir in the mid-1800s. It bubbled from the ground, and was bottled by the proprietors of a Maine inn. Today, it embodies a different era.

But Poland Spring water is ubiquitous throughout the Northeast, so much so that its UPC code is the No. 1 scanned item in New York City. “It surpassed cigarettes,” said Heather Printup, ...

Poland Spring, the country’s bestselling bottled water, is “a colossal fraud,” according to a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed last week in Connecticut, alleges that instead of ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series on Maine water. Read part 2: A thirst for raw water from Maine Sometime in the next couple of months, when America is at its hottest ...