Caledon Spring Water attributes a number of first’s for South African bottled water: 1st bottled water in the Country 1st bottled water to introduce the 500ml bottles 1st bottled water to introduce a full range of flavours 1st bottled water to be available throughout South Africa New Flavours now available "AS LONG AGO as 1893, samples of Caledon’s famous spring water were submitted to the greatest exhibition of the time, the Chicago World Fair, where the water was awarded first prize for its medicinal and curative properties against the world’s top mineral waters."