Radar Technologies International

Firms that actually find water could be of considerable value in the future - - check out Radar Technologies International.  From their website:

"The WATEX™ - short for "water exploration" - System is a unique field-proven proprietary technology that prospects and explores sub-surface water, soils and geology in order to enable and support effective hydrogeological investigations with optimal certainty. It is the result of years of research and development by RTI.

Using the WATEX™ technology, RTI produces groundwater target maps which:

• Provide a regional view of water resources
• Identify shallow water aquifers and their potential
• Identify deep-water aquifers
• Increase drilling success rate to between 75% and 95%

The ground water target maps produced with WATEX™ are designed for decision-makers, policy-makers and drillers. WATEX™ is a game-changer in terms of water exploration allowing decision-makers to initiate larger scale water development and management projects.

WATEX™ achieves rapid, accurate mapping of groundwater potential thanks to its transdisciplinary and multi-technological design, which comprises a calculated mix of space-based remote-sensing and oil exploration technologies and conventional hydrogeological techniques.

A particularly innovative feature of WATEX™ is the WATEX™ image processing component, which detects groundwater moisture in depths of 40 meters or more and enables accurate modeling of aquifers and fractures in shallow depths (0-100 meters). WATEX™ also maps deep aquifers from 100 meters to 4,000 meters with the integration of petroleum industry data.

RTI can implement the WATEX™ technology without prior knowledge of the area and without pre-existing data. As a matter of fact most regions in which WATEX™ was used by RTI had no existing geologic or hydrogeological maps."

Also check out the following article in the New York Times - - Huge Aquifers Are Discovered in North Kenya.