Sparkling greetings from the bowels of the earth! There is a terrible bang when water and magma collide. On contact with the red-hot magma, the water vaporizes in huge explosions and blows a large funnel into the earth's surface. This also explains the formation of the Dreiser Weiher, one of the largest magma cauldrons in the volcanic Eifel.
And it is precisely this volcanic past that provides the basis for a foodstuff that we can no longer imagine our tables without: mineral water. Initially falling to earth as precipitation, the water seeps through fissures, porous volcanic rock and the older layers of the bedrock. In the process, it becomes enriched with minerals and is extensively filtered. Somewhere deep in the earth, the water then meets something that is heading in exactly the opposite direction - upwards: carbon dioxide.
Anyone who thinks that everything is quiet and peaceful down there in the earth's interior today is mistaken. Here, red-hot magma is constantly in motion and sends greetings upwards by releasing a variety of gases, including CO2 (carbon dioxide). When water and CO2 mix, the result is something that we drink almost every day: sparkling mineral water.
