About us
Since 1985, for your health.
Saipan Ice & Water Company, Inc. is Saipan’s first bottled water company — more than forty years of Sparkle Clean drinking water and ice, from our plant in Lower Base.
A company born of necessity
In 1985, Anthony Pellegrino was running a sunset cruise on Saipan and needed drinking water for the boat. At the time, bottled water was still uncommon on island. That need became Saipan Ice & Water.
The company began with one water purifier and one manual filling unit. It grew into a plant in Lower Base that bottles its own water, manufactures ice, and delivers across the island — a familiar name in homes, stores, schools, and workplaces.
“Our aim is to be #1, not in sales or market share but in terms of the quality of our products, management and customer service.”
That is how the company has described its philosophy. The public-facing promise is simpler, and it is still on the trucks and the posters: We care about your health.
Stand-in photo
How we look after the water
An in-house chemist checks water quality in our laboratory. That commitment has been part of the company’s story for many years, and it is one we still make plain: we would rather invest in testing than leave quality to chance.
The plant has long purified water through a careful process — historically drawing from groundwater, and when possible rainwater, along with water from the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation, then treating and purifying it, including by reverse osmosis, before bottling. We also work within the water-quality testing required of a plant on Saipan.
Details of equipment and sources can change over time. If you have a specific question about today’s process, call us and we will answer it directly.
A favorite on island
In 2023, readers of the Marianas Variety named Saipan Ice & Water the gold winner for Best Water Company in the Best of the Marianas awards — “your favorite water company,” as we said at the time, with Saina Ma’åse’ to everyone who voted.
We marked 40 years in 2025 the same way we have marked the milestones before it: as Saipan’s first bottled water company, still here, still Sparkle Clean.
We don’t settle for clean. It has to be Sparkle Clean.
Håfa Adai, and thank you for trusting us with the water on your table.