Long River Believed Found Flowing Deep Under Amazon River By Michael Winter | USA TODAY | Aug 25, 2011 Brazilian scientists report finding a possible 3,700-mile-long river flowing 13,000 feet beneath the Amazon River, the Associated Press says. Based on temperature variations at 241 inactive oil wells, researchers identified water movement more than two miles deep and running nearly the length of the world's second longest river, said Valiya Hamza of Brazil's National Observatory, for whom the presumed subterranean river was named. If the find is confirmed, which is expected by late 2014, the underground flow indicates the Amazon rain forest has two drainage systems running west to east. http://content.usatoday.com/communi...ieved-found-flowing-deep-under-amazon-river/1 IMO: This is truly an amazing find and one that will be extremely valuable in coming centuries as the Earths water supply comes into full play. Water is a life giving resource and one that should be guarded through out the world as to its use, purity, and storage, as Earth conditions change due to over population, searches for rapidly deteriorating food sources, global unrest, and starvation in many countries looming on our horizon. Water will become the days gold in future years. If there are underground rivers that could be tapped in the coming centuries, water could logically become the main source of continued existence upon the Earth for mankind instead of extinction as has happened to other animals in the course of our fellow creatures evolvement.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14693637 Subterranean Amazon river 'is not a river' By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News 27 August 2011 From the section Science & Environment A subterranean river said to be flowing beneath the Amazon region of Brazil is not a river in the conventional sense, even if its existence is confirmed. The "river" has been widely reported, after a study on it was presented to a Brazilian science meeting last week. But the researchers involved told BBC News that water was moving through porous rock at speeds measured in cm, or inches, per year - not flowing. Another Brazilian expert said the groundwater was known to be very salty. Valiya Hamza and Elizabeth Tavares Pimentel, from the Brazilian National Observatory, deduced the existence of the "river" by using temperature data from boreholes across the Amazon region. The holes were dug by the Brazilian oil company Petrobras in the search for new oil and gas fields, and Petrobras has since released its data to the scientific community. Using mathematical models relating temperature differences to water movement, the scientists inferred that water must be moving downwards through the ground around the holes, and then flowing horizontally at a depth of several km. continued.
