Maintenance of Libya's impressive desert-spanning pipelines has encountered several hurdles, jeopardizing the coastal regions ...

The water comes from the world's largest fossil water aquifer system, known as the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System. It was left behind some 10,000 years ago when this region was a surprisingly ...

The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) shared by four countries in northeast Africa (Chad, Egypt, Libya and Sudan) is the world's largest "fossil" groundwater aquifer, covering some two million ...

DEEP beneath the eastern Sahara, the Nubian Sandstone aquifer was in trouble. By the early 2000s, the aquifer – one of the largest and oldest groundwater deposits in the world, which supplies ...

The Libyans say they may stop growing wheat using water from the NWSAS and the Nubian sandstone aquifer system, the world's largest fossil aquifer, which they share with Egypt, Chad and Sudan.

The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, the world's largest, is located under the eastern part of the Sahara desert and spans the political boundaries of Libya, Chad, Sudan and Egypt.

In many cases, this groundwater is pumped from an ancient reservoir called the Nubian aquifer -- a sandstone formation that extends some 2 million square kilometers (about 800,000 square miles ...

Libya has no natural waterways, little rainfall and is 90% desert, so the find was significant. The vast resources are part of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, the world’s largest fossil-water ...

The Nubian aquifer is the world's largest known "fossil" water aquifer system, meaning that the water is ancient and non-renewable. The joint Technical Cooperation project began in 2006 and has ...

Reika Yokochi, Zheng-Tian Lu, Eilon Adar, and colleagues used a long-lived radioisotope, krypton-81, to trace the origins of the water in the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer in Israel's Negev Desert.

The Negev Desert, Israel, where researchers from Argonne and the University of Chicago used the radioisotope krypton-81 to identify two distinct source contributions to the water in the Nubian ...