The aquifer stretches from Massachusetts to New Jersey—the biggest formation of its kind ever found.
Scientists have discovered a huge reservoir of potentially fresh water hidden beneath the ocean off the east coast of the U.S.
The discovery is important as researchers believe similar aquifers may exist across the globe—potentially providing a source of fresh water in regions where access to this resource is becoming more and more limited. Evidence of an aquifer first emerged in the 1970s when companies drilling for oil would occasionally hit a pocket of freshwater instead. However, it was unclear whether these were isolated regions, or if they represent pieces of a larger structure. In 2015, using technology that had previously been used by oil companies to search for oil, researchers started studying the coast off New Jersey and Massachusetts, where pockets of fresh water sediments had previously been identified.
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