Kabwe Hot Springs
- Location
- Kabwe, Zambia
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7.5
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Kabwe Hot Springs is a natural geothermal site near the mining city of Kabwe in central Zambia, where chloride-rich thermal water surfaces from the ancient Precambrian basement in a landscape shaped by over a century of lead and zinc mining that has made Kabwe infamous as one of the world's most contaminated cities. The hot springs, used by local communities for bathing, provide a natural wellness resource in a city grappling with the legacy of colonial-era industrial pollution. The springs' existence alongside one of Africa's most significant environmental rehabilitation challenges gives them a uniquely complex character among Zambia's geothermal sites.