Yes. This is where Evian water comes from, but the picture of the mountains on the bottle had me fooled. Evian water is not from an alpine glacier but from protected sources of groundwater in the area. In fact, Evian water isn’t even from the town of Evian, it’s from a farmland area a few kilometres south of Evian called Vérossier.

Here, rainwater that falls on the fields get absorbed into the soil and are retained as groundwater. The area is preserved and protected by law to maintain the purity of the local groundwater so that it can be extracted and put into bottles in a factory. The picture of the mountain is probably of the snow-capped French Alps in the distance.

Pre-Chablais Alps

Sorry to prove the misconceptions wrong, Evian is not glacial water, but it is almost free tap water for residents around Lake Geneva.

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