Aussie ingenuity to resolve our troubles

Kenneth Davidson.

An opinion piece in today’s Melbourne Age (November 26) tells us about how we could scavenge from our oceans enough water for us all while, at the same time, providing considerable emissions free energy.

Senior columnist at The Age, Kenneth Davidson, speculated in an article headed: ”How Aussie ingenuity could solve the world's water woes” that the answer for clean energy and fresh water was “right under our noses” and had been for more than two millenniums.

He said Leaks in these aquifers are called ''seeps'' and water has been flowing from them since the last ice age. Some of these aquifers, he argued, are huge - bigger than the Great Artesian Basin.