Freshwater Springs of the Persian Gulf

Springs were the first water sources that the original inhabitants of the Iranian Plateau benefitted from. Since ancient times, these springs have provided human beings with the simplest way of using groundwater and guided them to locate aquifers. The freshwater springs at the bottom of the Persian Gulf originate from the Zagros Mountains and, after flowing at the bed of the Persian Gulf, create some spring with large discharges of water. There is a permanent flow of freshwater under the Persian Gulf flowing from Iran to Saudi Arabia and other countries of this region. In places where the layers containing freshwater are fractured due to tectonic activities, we can observe some of these springs from Qatar in the south of the Persian Gulf to the north of Kazerun in Iran. Therefore, we can claim that these springs are created because of the faulting of the layers containing freshwater at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.