Fresh Spring Water
Over two million litres of pure fresh spring water wells up naturally into the Rainbow Springs each day…
Interestingly, the water that comes bubbling out of the spring, might well have started as rain up to 50 years ago, falling on Mt Ngongataha.
This extinct volcano has no established streams to carry its run off, so the water soaks into the ground and filters through the volcanic rock. Finally it emerges through an aquifer as the beautiful clean, clear water that bubbles out of the Spring.
In Maori mythology, some springs were regarded as “the abode of the Gods”. They called them waiwhakaruka hunga atua. The place where the Gods sprung out of the water. A priest or ‘Tulhuna’ would visit the spring and ask the Gods whether this was an appropriate time to plant crops or make war. If it was, as legend has it, there would arise from the spring a column of light, like a clear rainbow which would come to earth again at another sacred place.