Top store splashes out on water

The cows each drink 20 gallons of water a day

A farming couple from Cornwall have landed a contract to supply the spring water it gives to its cows to Harrods.

Colin and Pauline Dyer run their bottled water business, Just Water, alongside their 150-strong dairy herd at Trekillick Farm near Bodmin.

Mr Dyer said they put in a borehole about 20 years ago to provide water for the cows but started bottling and selling it three years ago.

Mr Dyer said: "If it's good enough for my cows it's good enough for people."

'So pure'

They decided to dig the borehole because it was getting expensive to provide the cows with the 20 gallons of water a day they required.

"Someone said it's so pure we should sell it, so 17 years later we did something about it," said Mr Dyer.

He says it is helping the farm to survive in a difficult economic climate.

"Because of the industry as it is at the moment, unless you diversify a lot of these farms are not going to survive."

Mrs Dyer says the water, which is also sold at 380 outlets in Cornwall, is going down well at the London store.

"We do get comments and we heard that they had a customer who ordered a whole pack online, so it's going well."