Fresh water beneath seabed!

Water is the most essential element for humans and other living organisms. By mass, water contains 11.1% hydrogen and 88.9% oxygen. Although more than 70% of the earth's surface is covered with water, a very small fraction of it is available as fresh drinking water. Moreover, due to extensive extraction of groundwater, volume of fresh water is decreasing very fast. Now scientists all over the world are researching to find out new sources of fresh water. Australian researchers have made some remarkable progress in this respect. They found untapped freshwater reserves locked beneath the world's seabed. They claimed the volume of this water resource is a hundred times greater than the amount we've extracted from the Earth's sub-surface in the past century since 1900. Bangladesh is rich in water resources. Scientific research in exploring new sources of fresh water should be intensified in our country also.
Professor M Zahidul Haque
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System, SAU, Dhaka