Water in the news
Malthusians always cry about how we are running out of things. They are always being proven wrong, never seem to learn from history.
Here is a story about clean water from the
London Daily Mail:
Vast freshwater reserves discovered under the ocean floor which could supply future generations
Vast freshwater reserves have been discovered under the ocean floor which scientists believe could sustain future generations.
Australian researchers claim to have found 500,000 cubic kilometres (120,000 cubic miles) of freshwater buried beneath the seabed on continental shelves off Australia, China, North America and South Africa.
The discovery comes as United Nations estimates suggest water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of the population of the world over the last century.
Lead author Vincent Post, from Flinders University, said: �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.
These deposits were formed when the sea level was profoundly lower and were trapped by layers of silt and clay when the sea level rose. No global warming in sight...
Posted by DaveH at December 8, 2013 12:56 PM