A newly discovered massive underground freshwater lake in Sudan could
help alleviate the region's severe drought stress and become a nexus
for peace in the Darfur region, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.(National Geographic, MSNBC.com and others first described the
discovery in April, but researchers put more certainty on the find
yesterday.)
[From the AP story, July 17, 2007]
El-Baz [director of Boston University's Center for Remote Imaging]
said water pumped from the underground reservoir -- measuring as large
as the state of Massachusetts -- could help...
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