Bir Setta (Source N°6)

Bir Setta (Spring Number Six) in Egypt's Western Desert is a sodium-rich artesian thermal spring in the remote landscape of the Farafra or Siwa oasis region, where ancient groundwater from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer emerges warm from the desert floor in one of the most isolated environments on Earth. The Western Desert oases of Egypt — Siwa, Farafra, Dakhla, Kharga, and Bahariya — have been inhabited since prehistoric times by communities sustained entirely by artesian spring water in a landscape that otherwise receives almost no rainfall. Bir Setta's sodium-rich waters reflect the mineral character of groundwater that has percolated through Cretaceous sandstone formations for thousands of years before reaching the surface in the Egyptian Sahara.