VERGENNES, Vt. (WCAX) - H2O and CO2-- the two might sound like the ingredients for your next chemistry project. But in Vergennes, they’re part of the packing process for Vermont-based Chug Water. It’s like bottled water, but better.

“Thanks to the beer industry, the can is the most recycled beverage canister,” said Linnae O’Neil, co-founder of Chug Water .

The idea to can local spring water dripped into her brain while she was working at a coffee shop in Stowe.

“A lot of tourism would come in and they wanted to buy coffee and they wanted a water to go,” O’Neil explained. “I couldn’t find a local water option on the market.”

So, she and her brother, Cullen, started brewing up some ideas.

“We wanted to offer something that was local, that was made within state lines by other small bus

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