• Question: How can we use your studies to locate fresh water that could be used by people all over the world?

    Asked by to Ekbal on 15 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Ekbal Hussain answered on 15 Jun 2014:

      Hi @samd777,
      Think of your kitchen sponge, it has lots of holes in it and can hold lots of water. If you tried to soak up water with a brick, it would be much more difficult.
      Similarly, there are some kind of rocks that water can’t travel through and others that water can travel through easily. Geologists, like myself, and water engineers can find where these rocks are and use them to guess where the most likely place to find water is.
      There are other important things to think about too. In a dry desert the water will generally be much deeper in the ground than in somewhere like England for example.

      This reminds me, have you heard of the Longitude Prize? It’s a special prize of 10 million pounds for the person/people who can solve one of 6 great big problems in our time now. One of these problems is about how we can ensure everyone has access to safe and clean water.
      But it’s up to YOU to vote for it. You can read about the challenges and vote here: http://www.longitudeprize.org/

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