The water from the waterfall into the town is considered sacred and people believe it has healing powers. Some people just sprinkle it on themselves, others pour it into wounds or drink it.
To keep up with demand on weekends and holidays, they have built a system that catches some of the water from the waterfall and routes it into these taps so that you can fill bottles to take home.
It wasn’t that busy the evening that Kerri visited, so most people were filling from the waterfall directly.
This is probably the better option, because some of the water that goes into the taps flows across the sidewalk on its way.
Which helpfully cleaned off the shoes I’d been wearing hiking across cow pie covered fields all day.
Of course many of those fields are upstream from this waterfall anyway. Yum.
