Washington, June 13 (IANS) In what could quench the thirst of billions of people in the future,
researchers have discovered our planet's largest water reservoir 640 km beneath our feet - bound up in rock deep in the earth's mantle.
Researchers from Northwestern University and University of New Mexico have found deep pockets of magma located beneath North America,
a likely signature of the presence of water at these depths.
This water is not in a form familiar to us - it is not liquid, ice or vapour.
This fourth form is water trapped inside the molecular structure of the minerals in the mantle rock.
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