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A newly discovered underground source could supply water to northern Namibia, [one] of the driest countr[ies] in sub-Saharan Africa for hundreds of years, experts say.
The water in the aquifer dubbed Ohangwena II, which lies under the boundary between Angola and Namibia, is up to 10,000 years old but safer to drink than many modern sources, scientists say.
On the Namibian side of the border the aquifer covers an area of about 43 miles by 25 miles.
"The amount of stored water would equal the current supply of this area in northern Namibia for 400 years, which has about 40 percent of the nation's population," said Martin Quinger from the German federal institute for geoscience and natural resources, which has been helping the Namibia government in its search for sustainable water supplies.
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