328|365 Water

Just over the summit of the Kaimai Ranges, as you’re headed to Hamilton from Tauranga, is a small almost unnoticed lay-area that conceals a natural fresh water spring. With the road on one side and native New Zealand bush on the other, a pipe is linked to the ground and from it fresh water flows.

There has been substantial rainfall recently and the pipe can’t contain the volume of water coming from this natural purifier and it bubbles up from the rocks around it.

Beautiful crisp, cold, clear water.

Uncaptured, it runs off to join a stream and make its way to the ocean.

Meanwhile almost a 1000 million people worldwide have no access to clean-water.

How lucky I am to have been born in this beautiful, abundant country.