Producer
Danone Waters
Owns Evian (Haute-Savoie, France), Volvic (Puy-de-Dôme, France), Badoit, Font Vella, Aqua; Volvic extraction grew 8,500x from 1950 to 2020; French authorities ordered 20% mandatory extraction reduction; Danone facing lawsuit from trout farmer for drying up streams near Volvic
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Evian Cachat Spring & Bottling Plant →
FRÉvian-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie · Natural Spring Water Bottling
100% of Evian sold worldwide comes from this single source; water takes 15+ years to filter through Gavot Plateau glacial rock; 1,200-hectare protected natural reserve; produces ~6M bottles/day; protected French natural appellation
Volvic Bottling Facility →
FRVolvic, Puy-de-Dôme · Natural Mineral Water Bottling
Volvic extraction grew 8,500x from 200K liters (1950) to 1.7B liters (2020); French authorities ordered 10% extraction reduction in 2021, second 10% reduction planned for 2025; 60,000 nearby residents faced hosepipe bans in 2023 while Volvic plant was exempted from same restrictions; trout farmer filed €32M lawsuit
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Incident2023
Volvic (Danone) extraction from the Puy-de-Dôme aquifer grew 8,500-fold from 200,000 liters per year (1950) to 1.7 billion liters per year (2020); in May 2023, 60,000 local residents across 31 districts faced hosepipe bans, swimming pool closures, and public fountain shutoffs due to drought — while the Volvic bottling plant was explicitly exempted from the same restrictions; French authorities have ordered mandatory 20% extraction reductions, and a trout farmer has filed a €32 million lawsuit alleging Danone pumping dried up centuries-old fishponds
Phys.org ↗Did you know2023
Danone's Evian water is publicly known as a premium French mineral water, but it is also the recommended water for mixing infant formula in France because of its low mineral content (calcium 80mg/L, magnesium 26mg/L, nitrates <1mg/L) — making it close to the mineral profile suitable for infant preparation. French pediatric guidelines recommend low-mineral bottled water for formula mixing when tap water mineral content is uncertain. Evian is derived from the Evian-les-Bains aquifer in Haute-Savoie — snowmelt percolates through glacial moraines for 15-20 years before emerging. This 15-20 year residence time means today's Evian water was snowfall during the 2000s: climate change reducing Alpine snowpack will not affect Evian supply for another decade, but is visibly impacting the recharge rates already. The same aquifer that supplies premium beverage water also supplies infant formula water and the regulatory status of the water (protected AOC-equivalent geographic designation) creates a supply chain that cannot be replicated: Evian by definition comes from one alpine valley.
Evian (Danone Waters) ↗