Ice Mountain has been part of theGreat Lakes water use debate, in which diversion of the basin's primary and secondary water for export has been controversial.[3][6] In 2004, a Michigan court ordered the pumping of Sanctuary springs to cease. After an appellate court overturned the cease and desist order, the company, and local groups agreed to pump only 218 US gallons (830 L; 182 imp gal) per minute, which is comparable to other local beverage operations.[7] Nestlé (which owned Ice Mountain at the time) ran into similar local opposition when trying to locate a new source location near the headwaters of theWhite River in the upperlower peninsula of Michigan.[8] In 2017, Nestle applied for permits to increase production to 400 gallons (US) per minute.[9] In 2019, a Michigan appellate court ruled that Nestle's Ice Mountain bottled water operation was not an essential public service, its bottled water was not a public water supply, and Osceola Township was within its rights to deny the company zoning approval for a new booster pump station to move its water.[10]
1 Brand owned byGeneral Mills; Produced by General Mills in the U.S. and Canada. Produced byCereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere.2 Brand owned byGeneral Mills; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license.3 U.S. production rights owned byThe Hershey Company.4 U.S. rights and production owned by theSmarties Candy Company with a different product.5 U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned byAssociated British Foods.6 Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlé.7 Brand owned byPost Foods; Produced by Cereal Partners and branded as Nestlé in the U.K. and Ireland.8 Philippine production rights owned byAlaska Milk Corporation.9 Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai production rights owned byFraser and Neave.10 Used only in Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia.11 Used only in the Philippines.12 U.S. production rights owned by theFerrara Candy Company.13NA rights and specific trade dress to all packaged coffee and other products under the Starbucks brand owned by Nestlé since 2019.14 Brand owned byMars, sold by Nestlé in Canada.15 Produced byFroneri in the U.S. since 2020.
