Acqua Santa Maria is the main brand of the company Acque Minerali, Si.A.M. srl that is a company with registered office in Ragusa and operational headquarters Modica in Sicily, which since 1992 manages the extraction and bottling of mineral waters. The waters flow from sources in the extreme southeast of Sicily in a large, fertile limestone high plain of tectonic origin in the Hyblaean Mountains zone (in the Modica area) and together with another stream (San Francesco) they form the Mothicanus torrent. The Modicane springs have been exploited since ancient times. Along these waterways, man has built kitchen garden and basins for collecting water that date back to the Arab domination that in Modica began in 844-845.