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While not offshore, the Great Man-Made River project [1] in Libya exploits the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer [2] which may have 150,000 km3 of groundwater (7x the vo
by nickt 7y ago
While not offshore, the Great Man-Made River project [1] in Libya exploits the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer [2] which may have 150,000 km3 of groundwater (7x the volume of The Great Lakes), or if you’re in the UK enough to fill Wembley Stadium 131,682,907 times.
It’s a significant amount of water.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys...
- mc32 7y agoInteresting. That’s a lot of water, depending on drought it could also be depleted fairly quickly. Aside. Wonder why they call percolated rainwater “meteoric” rather than pluvial. Obviously some relation to meteorology, big seems a bit of an odd choice.