Lifespan Company Limited

2 Business View Caribbean Lifespan Company Limited Jamaican company prospers by bottling some of the world’s purest water The Blue Mountains are the longest mountain range in Jamaica, dominating the eastern third of the is- land. Blue Mountain Peak, at 7402 feet, is Jamaica’s highest point. Whereas the island’s average rainfall is 77 inches per year, the higher elevations of the Blue Mountains can catch moisture-laden winds which can then drop over 200 inches of rain, per year, upon them. At the bottom of the Blue Mountains, is the Spring Garden Aquifer. It takes between 14 and 15 years for the rain that falls atop the Blue Mountains to funnel through the mineral rock within them and into the aquifer, below, a waterway that stretches beneath the land and reaches beyond the Northern Coastal parish of Portland, Jamaica to the sea. Spring Garden is also the home of the Lifespan Com- pany Limited. Lifespan bottles the water that gushes from one of the seven springs it owns that are con- nected to the Spring Garden Aquifer. The flow rate of that particular spring is over 900 gallons per minute, or 473 million gallons of water, per year. But more im- portant than the amount of water that flows from the