Water N Ice

I love this place. People that work here are awesome, never had any issues dealing with this business. Love the thrifty ice cream and their shaved ice. VERY CLEAN STORE.

Now how do you rate a place that sells water? I’m not sure, but I’ll give it a shot.
When I settled into my ‘hood after moving here, I discovered that there were sea monkeys in my tap water (that’s nasty-​ass, Phoenix, you get docked one star for that), so I went on the hunt for purified water elsewhere. Sure, there are all these refrigerated water dispensers in front of grocery stores and gas stations, but dude, this place says «Water N’ Ice»! A store for water! And ice! So I went in.
A friendly older man, who I assume is the owner, helped me figure out which bottles I needed and how to fill them up inside the store without getting my shirt soaking wet (ok, he showed me once I already had my shirt soaking wet — something to do with being gradual with the water pressure, but what do I know?). He said the water was put through a reverse osmosis system which sounded fancy enough to convince me. As long as there aren’t any sea monkeys floating around in my water, I’m all good.
The store is open till 7 pm if you want to fill up your bottles inside (the hoses also allow you to rinse those 5 gallon jugs out before refilling them). Indoor prices are $ 0.30/gallon, or you can fill them at the outside dispenser for $ 0.25/gallon (open 24 hours). Even though Sprouts, which is right there, has its own water dispenser, I’ve never seen anyone use it. Everyone always comes to this place. Good water or good marketing? Who knows.
Anyway, beyond water (and ice!), and a whole array of water jugs/​gallons/​coolers for sale, this Water N Ice location also does shaved ice, and is very popular with the kids, enough so that the owner has a «Only 3 Students In the Store At Any One Time!» sign in the window. Those measly ruffians. Gotta watch out for them troublesome kids. Bah.
So in the end, it’s my friendly neighborhood water store. Run by a friendly old guy, staffed by other friendly people, producing friendly, sea monkey-​free water.
4 stars.