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Vast undersea freshwater reserves mapped
starlightDate: Tuesday, 10-December-2013, 8:52 PM | Message # 1
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Vast freshwater reserves are trapped beneath the ocean floor which could sustain future generations as current sources dwindle, say an international team of scientists.

In this week's issue of Nature they estimate 500,000 cubic kilometres of low-salinity water is buried beneath the seabed on continental shelves around the world, including off Australia, China, North America and South Africa.

"The volume of this water resource is a hundred times greater than the amount we've extracted from the Earth's sub-surface in the past century since 1900," says Australian lead author, Vincent Post, a groundwater hydrogeologist from Flinders University in Adelaide.


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Read more/Full article/source - http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/12/06/3906589.htm


 
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