Spring (water)
A spring is a place where groundwater flows out of the ground. A spring may flow the whole year or only sometimes. This depends on the water getting into the ground all of the time (rain) or only once in a while (snow melting).
Water from a spring often flows downhill, along the land. This is how rivers start.
Some springs produce water that is good for health reasons. Sometimes towns grow by these springs because many people who are ill come there to get better. Such towns are called spa towns.
Spring (water) Media
On an average day nearly 303 million US gallons (1,150,000 m3) of water flow from Big Spring in Missouri at a rate of 469 cubic feet per second (13.3 m3/s).
Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Sunrise at Middle Spring, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Utah
Chalybeate spring below Cascada de los Colores, La Palma
Drone video of Aegviidu blue springs in Estonia
Fontaine de Vaucluse or Spring of Vaucluse in France discharges about 470 million US gallons (1,800,000 m3) of water per day at a rate of 727 cu ft (20.6 m3) per second.
Pruess Lake is spring-fed in the arid Snake Valley of Utah.
Natural iron hot spring in Beppu, Japan
Other websites
- "The Science of Springs" (via Wayback Machine)
- "What Is A Spring?"
- List of First-Magnitude springs in Florida Archived 2008-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Technical and educational material on mineral springs and mineral water in Victoria Archived 2013-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
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