Mzima Springs

The natural filtration process gives rise to Mzima's famously clear stream, which flows through a series of pools and rapids.

Mzima is one of Tsavo's most popular wildlife attractions owing to its resident populations of hippos and Nile crocodiles.

Fruiting trees such as date and raffia palms, waterberries and figs grow beside the water, using their submerged roots to absorb nutrients.

Starving game animals were driven to permanent water sources in their thousands, bringing them into competition with the resident hippos.

Mzima Springs, Marere, and Tiwi in Kwale County are the other sources of water (after Baaricho which supplies 90 million litres per day).