*Excerpt from The Australian 1-12-2012
With drought pressing hard on Australia for many years now the question of how to solve our water supply issues has been pushed upon the scientific community to answer. Pioneering researchers at the Australian National University seem to have come up with an answer. Ground breaking discoveries in the field of chemical mitosis have led to what some have described as the end of water shortage worldwide.
Realistically speaking, there is a lot of ground to cover before the scheme can be implemented world-wide. Although giant leaps have been made in application since the discovery just over a year ago, the science remains highly expensive in application. Some scientists believe it may be at least another five to ten years before it can be implemented in some over the world poorer countries. For the the moment however, the US, China and much of Europe have expressed extreme interest in the progress at the ANU.
ANU has just recently announced that they will begin medium scale tests starting on the 5th of December. The hope is that the facility will be replicated on a large scale at the start of the new year, creating water for Canberra and surrounding regions.
