Bottled Water Company Sparkletts Named Official Water of the 2006 L.A. County Fair

LOS ANGELES, August 29, 2006 — Sparkletts (www.water.com), a DS Waters bottled water brand, has been named the official water of the 2006 L.A. County Fair, to be held September 8 through October 1 at Fairplex. The purified water company will also be serving as a presenting sponsor of the Stage at Park Square, where visitors to the fair can enjoy a variety of live musical events and other family-oriented performances, including the California State Finals of the Colgate Country Showdown, the world’s largest country music talent competition.

“We are delighted to be the bottled water of choice for the 2006 L.A. County Fair,” said Joseph Silva, National Marketing Manager for parent company DS Waters. “Both visitors and vendors alike will be able to enjoy the high-quality purified water that people have come to expect from Sparkletts while listening to great music and taking part in the fun and excitement of this year’s fair.”

Sparkletts representatives will be available at the fair, offering purified water samples to guests and demonstrating the company’s range of water dispensers for home and office use. Special introductory offers will also be available for those signing up for home or business bottled water delivery service.

More than 288 food vendors will be present at the 2006 L.A. County Fair, serving a range of fun and tasty items for visitors to enjoy, from burritos to Philly cheese steaks to turkey legs. The fair will also feature performances by such well-known acts as Heart, Rihanna with Trey Songz, the Doobie Brothers & Grandfunk Railroad, and Donna Summer.

For more information on the L.A. County Fair, visit www.lacountyfair.com or www.fairplex.com.

About Sparkletts

Sparkletts was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1925. Since then, the brand has held the distinction of being one of the country's finest providers of refreshing purified water. Sparkletts is also the official bottled water of many well-known theme parks and attractions across Southern California.

About DS Waters

Created in 2003, DS Waters (www.water.com) is the parent company of Sparkletts and a producer and distributor of bottled water products across the United States. The company, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is the U.S. leader in home and office water delivery, with a focus on three-gallon, five-gallon and 1/2-liter single serve bottled water products. Water is bottled at more than 25 manufacturing facilities and then delivered by a fleet of over 2,000 delivery trucks to millions of homes and offices across the country. DS Waters employs approximately 4,800 people in more than 40 states.