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Planet Ark World Environment News - in partnership with Colonial First State People Stand On A Platform Overlooking An Underground Spring Known As The Bubbler Mound Spring

Date: 24-Dec-08
Country: AUSTRALIA
Author: Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee/Handout

People Stand On A Platform Overlooking An Underground Spring Known As The Bubbler Mound Spring Photo: Ho New
Photo: Ho New

People stand on a platform overlooking an underground spring known as The Bubbler Mound Spring which is fed by the Great Artesian Basin in South Australia, in this handout image made available December 16, 2008.

An ancient underground water basin the size of Libya holds the key to Australia avoiding a water crisis, and sustaining $2.4 billion worth of mining, farming and tourism, as climate change bites the drought-hit nation.

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