Sounds like snake-oil salesman to me. The bit that gets me is this "With our proprietary technology, we have found a way to reach this deeper water economically without drilling wells many thousands of feet deep." How else are you supposed to get it out without drilling a hole? Another bit is "Many water strategies focus on conservation, rather than additional supply." The Great Artesian Basin in Australia holds a lot of water, that is known. But it old, up to millions of years old, very slow to recharge with long travel times and long residence times. Groundwater needs to be sustainably managed. You can't keep on mining the earth forever. It's like another company that I came across once, that said the that they could find sediments that held a lot of water through some black box technology. The instrument couldn't differentiate between gravel, sand and clay. Most of the strata that they found that held the most water turned out to be clay. Due to the higher porosity a clay can in fact hold larger amounts of water than a sand or gravel. The only problem is that clay tends to hold onto its water and it's not very permeable, high porosity, low permeability.
Published by Martin O'Rourke
Sounds like snake-oil salesman to me. The bit that gets me is this "With our proprietary technology, we have found a way to reach this deeper water economically without drilling wells many thousands of feet deep." How else are you supposed to get it out without drilling a hole? Another bit is "Many water strategies focus on conservation, rather than additional supply." The Great Artesian Basin in Australia holds a lot of water, that is known. But it old, up to millions of years old, very slow to recharge with long travel times and long residence times. Groundwater needs to be sustainably managed. You can't keep on mining the earth forever.
It's like another company that I came across once, that said the that they could find sediments that held a lot of water through some black box technology. The instrument couldn't differentiate between gravel, sand and clay. Most of the strata that they found that held the most water turned out to be clay. Due to the higher porosity a clay can in fact hold larger amounts of water than a sand or gravel. The only problem is that clay tends to hold onto its water and it's not very permeable, high porosity, low permeability.