Vast freshwater reserves discovered under the ocean floor which could supply future generations.

[dipsydoodle]

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.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519911/Vast-freshwater-reserves-discovered-ocean-floor-supply-future-generations.html#ixzz2mpxtTWki

[Laelth]

1. If true, this is awesome news. n/t

-Laelth

[djean111]

2. Hopefully - and seriously - I hope Nestle doesn't stake a claim to it.

I think water is the next thing the privatizers are going to target.

[dballance]

4. LOL, we must have hit post at the same time

My first thought was Nestle and their asshole CEO.

[Marie Marie]

21. We have a big Nestle bottling plant here sucking up OUR resources

for free and then selling it back to us as bottled water. Nice gimmick - heh? And now we have an Ocean Spray bottling plant planning on doing the same. Not to mention that the big banks are buying up water rights at an alarming rate. Maybe I will have to schmooze W to get some of that water under his land in Paraguay? Potable water - the next oil!

[dballance]

3. Drill Baby, Drill

Let's see how many corps apply for drilling permits for this. Nestle, perhaps?

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Lock it up

so Halliburton can't use it for fracking. Please!!

[RC]

6. Sure, pump that water out, till the sea bed collapses and causes tidal waves, wiping out coastal

cities.
Don't forget the ensuing earthquakes.

Lets work on our root problem first. Too Many people for this planet to support. Then we can pump these reservoirs out and the resultant damage won't matter as much.

[raccoon]

15. I was thinking that too, like sinkholes in FL and other places. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Erm, Fukushima Spring water?

[Gore1FL]

16. The report on that is positively glowing.

[A Little Weird]

17. Good one!

[KoKo]

8. Sounds Good ..but SORRY...Coke and Pepsi already have Rights to this Depository!

So they can SUCK OUT ALL THE WATER to BOTTLE...just like Keystone and Frakers are doing with our last "Suck Out it All" Resources.

The rest of us will be stuck with Desalinizing the Ocean .... (If only we could filter out the Nuclear Waste from Japan.)

Sorry to be so gloomy...but..I am.

[silvershadow]

18. Except that the Bushes own those rights already. The ocean's subsurface is under Paraguay

so it somehow is a mineral rights issue that favors them because- well, just because. (And of course, by extension, Halliburton, et al.)

[MFM008]

9. the earth

keeps trying to give us a chance and we keep on killing ourselves.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Good news.

Quick, Commence Complaining!

[freshwest]

11. Wow. There was also a story of an aquifer in Libya before Qaddafi was killed.

Here's a few stories mentioning it:



http://peakwater.org/tag/sand-stone-aquifer/



http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100505-fossil-water-radioactive-science-environment/

And a closer story:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jennacavelle/paya-the-untold-story-of-the-la-owens-valley-water?ref=card

These finds sound much bigger.

[KoKo]

14. Bush's Paraguay Land Grab.."Hideout or Water Raid" (the Aquifer)

Don't forget the Bush Family's Huge Plot of land in Paraquay..with the Aquifer...considered one of the World's Largest they bought while Bush II was President.
We here on DU all wondered why they would buy this land in Paraquay...until people checked it out.

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Hideout or Water Raid--Bush’s Paraguay Land Grab
by CP News Wire

Asuncion, Paraguay.

The land grab project of U.S. President George W. Bush in Chaco, Paraguay, has generated considerable discomfort both politically and environmentally.

The news circulating the continent about plans to buy 98,840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, near the Triple Frontier (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay) is the talk of the town in these countries.

Although official sources have not confirmed the information that is already public, the land is reportedly located in Paso de Patria, near Bolivian gas reserves and the Guarani indigenous water region, within the Triple Border.

Alto Paraguay Gov. Erasmo Rodriguez Acosta revealed he heard that part of the land purchase consists of an ecological reserve (Fundacion Patria), with which Bush is affiliated.

In its interview with Rodriguez Acosta, neike.com.py reported that he does not have documentation of this affiliation and it could not communicate either with the foundation or with the National Rural Development and Land Institute, in charge of these state lands.

Concern increased last week with the arrival of Bush’s daughter, Jenna, and a source from the Physical Planning Department saying that most of the Chaco region belongs to private companies.

Luis D’Elia, Argentina´s undersecretary for Land for Social Habitat, says the matter raises regional concern because it threatens local natural resources..

He termed it "surprising" that the Bush family is trying to settle a few short miles from the US Mariscal Estigarribia Military Base

Argentinean Adolfo Perez Esquivel warned that the real war will be fought not for oil, but for water, and recalled that Acuifero Guaraní is one of the largest underground water reserves in South America, running beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (larger than Texas and California together).

"The southern U.S. states are already struggling with water shortages," asserted the 1980 Nobel Peace Prizewinner.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/10/20/bush-s-paraguay-land-grab/

[malaise]

12. Oh dear - look out for real water wars

Great news

[Liberal_in_LA]

22. plus one

[tclambert]

13. So . . . there is water at the bottom of the ocean?

[on point]

19. In other words we are living beyond our means...

[scarletwoman]

20. It will be privatized, commodified, and make a select few corporations very rich.

It sure as hell won't be extracted for the common good.