American Water Star Goes Hawaiian with United Hardware Distributing.

Business Editors

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2004

American Water Star Inc. (OTCBB: AMWS), a publicly traded company located in Las Vegas, has been selected to have their Hawaiian Tropic Beverage line to be the featured beverage at United Hardware Stores for the next two years. United Hardware will follow an Hawaiian theme for the next two years in their popular "Hardware Hank" & "Trust Worthy Hardware" stores. Combined, United Hardware has more than 1,000 stores nationally.

"The Hawaiian Tropic Beverages were featured in the United Hardware booth a few months back at a show in Minneapolis and the product sampling was a huge hit. We had an Hawaiian Tropic demo girl sampling the product with the attendees and the lines of people waiting for a taste of our beverage were long all day. We took thousands of cases of orders at that show," said Jeff Peterson of Spice Group, a broker for American Water Star Inc. "This is just the beginning with this impressive order. We definitely want the opportunity to feature the Hawaiian TropMix(R) Mixers with this chain as well."

"The Spice Group has done extremely well with placing our beverages. We are very pleased with our relationship with Spice Group as well as the high-profile retailers such as United Hardware that they brought in," said Jerry Ludeman, executive vice president of American Water Star Inc. "We will continue to support our brokers, distributors and retailers with healthy, delicious beverages that are unique in packaging, flavor and branding."

About American Water Star Inc.

American Water Star Inc. ("AMWS") is a publicly traded company and is engaged in the beverage bottling industry. Its product brands are both licensed and developed in-house, and bottled in strategic locations throughout the United States. AMWS' beverage products are sold by the truckload, principally to distributors, who sell to retail stores, corner grocery stores, convenience stores, schools and other outlets.

At AMWS, we believe our great-tasting, new zero sugar, zero calorie flavored water beverages have positioned us to capture a large share of the market for healthy flavored waters. Our products include: Hawaiian Tropic -- our latest product featuring a sugar-free, no carbonation, and caffeine-free, sodium-free tropical drink. Hawaiian Tropic flavors include Strawberry Kiwi, Kiwi-Lemon Lime, Orange Guava and Pineapple Pink Grapefruit. For the grade school age children, we are introducing Geyser Sport -- our new non-sugared, zero calorie, zero carbohydrates, zero sodium, vitamin- and mineral-enriched, fruit-flavored beverage brand. Our other premium beverages include: Geyser Fruit Beverages -- our line of eight different fruit-flavored waters which have proven to be popular with consumers, and Geyser Fruta -- our Latin line of seven different fruit-flavored beverages.

Statements herein express management's beliefs and expectations regarding future performance and are forward looking and involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the ability to negotiate outstanding prior debts of acquired companies; properly identify acquisition partners; adequately perform due diligence; manage and integrate acquired businesses; raise working capital and secure other financing; respond to competition and rapidly changing technology; deal with market and stock price fluctuations; and other risks. These risks are and will be detailed, from time to time, in AMWS' Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including Form 10-KSB for the year ended Dec. 31, 2002, and subsequent Forms 10-QSB and 8-K. Actual results may differ materially from management's expectations.