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This summer, a first-of-its-kind global research expedition followed up on that surprise. Drilling for fresh water under the salt water off Cape Cod, Expedition 501 extracted thousands of samples from what is now thought to be a massive, hidden aquifer stretching from New Jersey as far north as Maine.

It's just one of many depositories of "secret fresh water" known to exist in shallow salt waters around the world that might some day be tapped to slake the planet's intensifying thirst, said Brandon Dugan, the expedition's co-chief scientist.

"We need to look for every possibility we have to find more water for society," Dugan, a geophysicist and hydrologist at the Colorado School of Mines, told Associated Press journalists who recently spent 12 hours on the drilling platform. The research teams looked in "one of the last places you would probably look for fresh water on Earth."

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good News: You've got a new source of fresh water.

Bad News: Extraction will cause groundwater-related subsidence of the nearby shoreline, causing rapid erosion and lower elevations. Multiple shoreline properties may be lost.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Multiple shoreline properties may be lost.

Depending on the area, I don't think I'm going to care much about some rich millionaires' second homes being destroyed. Sure, I don't want to see the erosion and decay of the landscape, but, you know...

[–] FEIN@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago

thing is, if multiple shoreline properties may be lost, then owners of these properties may have something to say against extracting the water ¯\(ツ)

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can also kiss goodbye to the beach, too.

[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

We will make new beaches. With cocaine, blackjack, and hookers. In fact, the beaches will all be pure Bolivian cocaine, as fresh and crisp and clean as the driven February snow. We shall fiuck on the beaches, we shall fuck on the landing grounds, we shall fuck in the fields and in the streets, we shall fuck in the hills; we shall cum, and cum, and cum.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I can think of some places to look in Florida and Scotland.