When you think of Africa you propably think of a dry and "desolate" continent, which biggest problems are water or the lack of it.
Well, at least for the northern and western parts, as they mostly consist of desert, dry sand and barren rock with an occasional oasis.

Think again, there is a lot of water....below ground.

And now it's mapped, and allmost "completly untouched".

Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface. The team have produced the most detailed map yet of the scale and potential of this hidden resource.

Robust quantitative groundwater maps for Africa were developed to highlight areas more likely to be resilient to climate change and also where sufficient groundwater resources may be available to help adaptation. The maps are the first produced for Africa and are underpinned by dedicated case studies and systematic data/literature reviews.

Originally posted by WeBrooklyn

I would say that Halliburton is already moving their drilling rigs in. Finding this much water in a part of the world where people regularly starve or die of dehydration sounds like a good way to start a few civil wars. You know maybe restructure a few countries to be more beneficial to the west

reply to post by DisIllusioned PatRiot

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Agreed.

I was also thinking about the gangleaders/criminals over there. Fresh water is such a needed resource over there, what are going through those minds when they find out it was literally under their noses the entire time....

According to its website, it is the largest underground network of pipes (2820 km) [2] and aqueducts in the world. It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m3 of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirte and elsewhere. The late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi described it as the "Eighth Wonder of the World."[3]

I don't know, i am just finding stuff right now, bear with me

"We hope Iraq will be the first domino and that Libya and Iran will follow. We don't like being kept out of markets because it gives our competitors an unfair advantage," John Gibson, chief executive of Halliburton's Energy Service Group, told International Oil Daily in an interview in May of 2003.1

Despite these sanctions, Halliburton subsidiary Brown & Root had worked in Libya ever since the 1980s. The company helped construct a system of underground pipes and wells that purportedly are intended to carry water.

Originally posted by Mianeye
I don't know, i am just finding stuff right now, bear with me

www.halliburtonwatch.org...

"We hope Iraq will be the first domino and that Libya and Iran will follow. We don't like being kept out of markets because it gives our competitors an unfair advantage," John Gibson, chief executive of Halliburton's Energy Service Group, told International Oil Daily in an interview in May of 2003.1

Despite these sanctions, Halliburton subsidiary Brown & Root had worked in Libya ever since the 1980s. The company helped construct a system of underground pipes and wells that purportedly are intended to carry water.