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152 Scientists Tap 'Secret' Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World

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msmash @ Slashdot 1 place · 09/05/2025 16:41 EDT

Scientists Tap 'Secret' Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World

A first-of-its-kind global research expedition has extracted freshwater samples from beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor off Cape Cod, documenting a massive aquifer stretching from New Jersey to Maine. The three-month Expedition 501, funded at $25 million by the National Science Foundation and European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling, drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed at sites 20-30 miles offshore.

Samples registered salinity as low as 1 part per thousand -- meeting U.S. freshwater standards --

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