Icebergs Could Float To The Rescue Of Cape Town H2o Crisis

From Reuters Africa:

Marine relieve experts are floating a invention to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa’s drought-hit Cape Town to assist solve the region’s worst H2O shortage inwards a century.

Salvage primary Nick Sloane told Reuters he was looking for regime together with somebody investors for a system to involve huge chunks of H2O ice across the ocean, chop them into a slury together with melt them downward into millions of litres of drinking water.

“We desire to demo that if in that place is no other root to solve the H2O crisis, nosotros accept unopen to other stance no i else has stance of yet,” said Sloane, who led the refloating of the capsized Italian rider liner Costa Concordia inwards 2014.

South Africa has declared a national disaster over the drought that striking its southern together with western regions afterwards 2015 together with 2016 turned into 2 of the driest years on record.

Tough H2O restrictions are already inwards house together with Cape Town authorities accept warned that taps could run dry out altogether every bit presently every bit side yesteryear side twelvemonth if wintertime rains create non come upwards to the rescue of the port city’s iv meg residents....MORE 

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