Ozarka
{{short description|Spring water brand}}
{{Infobox bottled water
| name = Ozarka
| market = South Central United States
| logo = Ozarka Logo Post-2022.png
| introduced = {{start date and age|1905}}
| producer = BlueTriton Brands
| type = Still
| ph = 5.6-6.6
| br = 0.017-0.11
| ca = 1.9-5.9
| cl = 2.6-26
| fl = 0
| mg = 0.85-1.8
| ni = 0
| k = 0-3
| na = 2.4-13
| s = 1.9-6.8
| website = {{URL|https://www.ozarkawater.com}}
}}
Ozarka is a brand of spring water{{cite web|title=Ozarka Quality Report|url=http://www.nestle-watersna.com/asset-library/documents/o_eng.pdf|publisher=Nestle Waters North America|access-date=10 April 2014}} which is bottled and sold in the South Central United States, including Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Mississippi, and portions of Tennessee, Kansas and Missouri. The Ozarka Spring Water Company was founded in Eureka Springs, Arkansas in 1905, and was the town's primary source of jobs and economic stability, until it was bought and relocated away from Eureka Springs, leaving the town in economic turmoil. Ozarka is now a division of BlueTriton Brands. Ozarka's slogan is Born Better.{{cite web|title=Ozarka|url=http://www.nestle-watersna.com/en/bottled-water-brands/ozarka|publisher=Nestle Waters North America|access-date=10 April 2014}}
The Ozarka water is selected from natural springs sources in Texas. It is found in Kroger, Walmart, and other retailers in Texas. It is no longer sourced from the Ozark mountain town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, the mountain range from which it derived its name.{{cite web|title=Ozarka History and Heritage|url=http://www.ozarkawater.com/#/assured/history_and_heritage|work=Ozarka Waters|access-date=9 January 2014}}
Legal history
In late 20th century, Ozarka company was got into legal troubles with the Texas state authorities when they drained an aquifer connected to wells owned by the adjacent proprietors, harming them. In ensuing legal actions, the trial court granted summary judgment against landowners who sued the company, relying on common-rule law Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. v. East passed in 1904, which says that "essentially allows, with some limited exceptions, a landowner to pump as much groundwater as the landowner chooses, without liability to neighbors who claim that the pumping has depleted their wells". The court of appeals affirmed the decision.
The case subsequently went all the way to the Supreme Court of Texas, and on May 1999 the court unanimously ruled in Sipriano et al. v. Great Spring Waters of America, Inc. a/k/a Ozarka to not overrule the common-law, while also retaining in Texas the Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, passed by Senate in 1997, which aimed at streamlining "the process for creating groundwater conservation districts and to make them more effective in the water management process".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jh7y2YwEYPMC|editor1=Jim Norwine|editor2=John R. Giardino|editor3=Sushma Krishnamurthy|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=9781585443260|title=Water for Texas|date=2005 |page=84}}{{cite web|url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tx-supreme-court/1341955.html|title=SIPRIANO v. GREAT SPRING WATERS OF AMERICA INC (1999)|website=caselaw.findlaw.com}}
Gallery
File:Ozarka water bottle.png|Ozarka water bottle
File:Ozarka bottle crop 2.jpg|Ozarka water bottle with new/alternate logo and formatting, circa 2022
File:Vice President Cheney with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the President's Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) (19922013941).jpg|US Vice President Dick Cheney, with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Chief of Staff Scooter Libby in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, 2001
References
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External links
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- [http://www.ozarkawater.com Official Ozarka Water]
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