The Okanogan Highlands Bottling Company was established in 1998 to prove that Water Is More Precious Than Gold. We believe people have the power to change what is wrong in our world. We must speak out and act when we see an injustice.

Our action water affords people the opportunity to get involved by sending a message in a bottle to the powers that be about the issues represented on our labels. Recycling a bottle with a political message as a mailing tube turns a consumer into an activist. We want to encourage folks to speak up about peace and the environmental effects of cyanide leach gold mining.


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After fighting such mining here at home in Okanogan County in North-Central Washington State for the last 15 years, we've seen that it takes more than one strategy to stop a multinational mining company from putting cyanide and other toxic chemicals into our watersheds.

Currently, our spring water source is the delicious Cedar Canyon Artesian Spring near Forest Grove, Oregon. Our goal is to eventually bottle our waters locally in the Okanogan to provide an economic, as well as environmental, incentive to keep our water clean. We will prove that Water Is More Precious Than Gold. By drinking or distributing our waters you help that dream become reality.

In April 2003, it became obvious that Water for Peace had to come next. War is a terrible, nasty and often one-sided affair. Common people have something to say about it, but are not afforded the opportunity to do so. We encourage public participation in creating a U.S. Department of Peace. By "sending a message in a bottle" we directly contact the powers that be and effectively express ourselves.


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Much care was taken in designing the Water for Peace label. We learned from developing the Water More Precious Than Gold label that words are powerful. Dr. Masaru Emoto of Japan describes in his book Messages From Water how water responds to that which surrounds it. By photographing the crystalline structure of frozen water, Dr. Emoto demonstrated how music, words, pictures, and intention actually changed the quality of the water inside the container. Positive words on the label create "high vibration water" within the bottle. We decided to create a totally positive, inspirational and beautiful water label to enhance the already delicious spring water we are using.

There are many issues in today's world that need our attention. Protecting parks and our national forests, saving old growth forests, ozone depletion, global warming, ocean issues including saving wild salmon, whales and coral reefs, genetically modified foods, stopping food irradiation, industrial farming and the unethical treatment of animals, and creating national health care are just a few of them. Our vision is to use bottled water to carry those messages.