'Huge' water resource exists under Africa

[Terpe]

Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater.


Source:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17775211

[lastlid]

This is not new. Gaddafi's regime recognised this many years back and started to exploit it in the Sahara. When I was out there we drilled water wells alongside oil wells, frequently. The water table is a long way down but there all the same.

[lastlid]

The biggest irrigation project in the word.....

The potential for water was discovered as far back as 1953.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Manmade_River

[Terpe]

The biggest irrigation project in the word.....

The potential for water was discovered as far back as 1953.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Manmade_River

Fascinating. Great link lastlid :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[lastlid]

They made reference to it in one of the episodes of the Human Planet....where the locals were digging wells down to the water table, in the dessert, then irrigating the land with the water.

[lastlid]

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From the National Geographic

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100505-fossil-water-radioactive-science-environment/
Another good link...people thought he was up to something more sinister :D....like a great missile launching project, the above being parts of a barrel of a huge supergun.... :D

"Contracts were awarded in 2001-02 for the next phase of Libya's Great Man-Made River project, an enormous, long-term undertaking to supply the country's needs by drawing water from aquifers beneath the Sahara and conveying it along a network of huge underground pipes".
http://www.water-technology.net/projects/gmr/