Springs

📖 In short

A spring is a place where water comes out of the ground naturally. Spring water started as rain or melted snow that soaked into the ground, then found a way back up to the surface.

🤩 Did you know?

The biggest springs are in limestone areas, where water flows through underground caves.
Some springs give enough water to form a river.
Desert oases usually grow up around springs.
Rainwater sometimes takes many years to reach a spring.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 An underground journey

Rainwater seeps through soil and cracks in rocks until it reaches a hard rock layer it can't pass through, then flows along it and comes out on a mountainside or in a valley.

🔍 Pure water

Spring water passes through sand and rocks that filter and clean it, so the water of many springs is clear and cool. Some carries minerals.

💡 Hot springs

Some springs come out hot, because their water passed near hot rocks deep underground. People bathe in some of them for their health.

🎯 Springs in our lands

Springs were very important in the Arab world, with villages and oases built around them, like Zubaida's spring and the springs of al-Ahsa in Saudi Arabia. And the blessed water of Zamzam comes from a well in Makkah.