JUST Water says it’ll be on local shelves soon via Saratoga Eagle

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

JUST Beverages, which packages spring water pumped from the City of Glens Falls watershed, said it has signed a distribution agreement with Saratoga Eagle that will make its water available “from the Canadian border to the Capital District.”

Spokesman Mark Behan said Saratoga Eagle “is already starting to fulfill JUST water orders locally.”

In the press release, JUST’s CEO Grace Jeon is quoted: “We are thrilled that Saratoga Eagle, a family-owned company deeply rooted in the community, will be JUST’s first direct-store delivery distributor…

“Our local friends have been asking for JUST water and now it will be available in restaurants, venues and stores right here at home.”

Saratoga Eagle will distribute the water throughout 12 counties: Warren, Washington, Saratoga, Franklin, Essex, Hamilton, Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Schoharie, Fulton and Montgomery.

JUST received state approval to sell its water in late July. Since then, it has been available exclusively in Whole Foods Market stores in several parts of the country, but not in the Northeast. The press release said “the remaining Whole Foods Market stores will be coming on board over the next few months.”

JUST says its unique blue packaging is made of 53% paper that is “sourced from certified, responsibly managed forests where new trees replace the ones that are harvested.”

The packages are recyclable “where carton recycling is available,” JUST says.

The Los Angeles-based company is paying Glens Falls $5,000 a month for the right to extract 1-million gallons of water a year. Above that amount, the company will pay a penny a gallon, which City officials and JUST say is six times the rate other customers pay, “providing significant revenue to the community to support infrastructure investment and water conservation initiatives,” JUST says.

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