Huge water reserve discovered in Kenya
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#2I hate to be that guy, but is this relevant?
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#3That's great news. The aquifer is below a dry and poor region of Kenya, so I really hope that the government will be able to use the water to develop the region.
This region will also have the LAPSSET transport corridor built in a few years. Put together, I'm feeling very positive about the future.
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#4Anyone know how aquifer sizes are measured? I would guess a sonar based system.
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#5I hate to be that guy , but is this relevant?
Hopefully people will, you know, stop dying and we hackers can go back to do real relevant things like instagram clones and settle once and for all which one is the better Lisp.
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#6in this follow-on article (http://www.itv.com/news/2013-09-10/potential-significance-of...) there are a few more details on how Alain Gachet discovered the aquifer:
He takes existing satellite, radar and geological maps of the area and layers them on top of each other to create one all-encompassing study of what lies beneath the soil.
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#7What is ITV.com and why is no other news organization reporting this?
Re: Huge water reserve discovered in Kenya
#8I hate to be that guy , but is this relevant?
If you really hated to be that guy, you wouldn't have said anything.
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#9What ticks me about such announcements is that too often they don't really mean anything besides the media blowing things out of proportion. This is unfortunately very common in anything nutrition or health based, but often applies to scientific "breakthroughs" as well. The media picks up some vague research result and hyping it to make headlines.
I just really hope this is not the case here, because it's truly good news for a dry region where water means everything.
This, along with the large recent oil and natural gas discoveries kind of makes me wonder how many such additional surprises the earth crust hides, that will be discovered soon due to much better discovery technologies and computational resources.
Re: Huge water reserve discovered in Kenya
#10I hate to be that guy , but is this relevant?
Hopefully people will, you know, stop dying and we hackers can go back to do real relevant things like instagram clones and settle once and for all which one is the better Lisp.
Cmon, you can't really expect an audience base that is probably mostly introverted and cynical to actually find joy in reading about a positive find in a third world country could you? In all seriousness though, I think this can be well developed if it isn't exploited by privatization. Since, ya know, most things that would be greatly beneficial to developing countries usually are.