Iceberg 'could help save Cape Town from drought'
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A marine salvage expert wants to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa to help solve Cape Town's drought.
The plan is to guide huge chunks of ice across the ocean, chop them into a slurry and melt them down into millions of litres of drinking water.
A single iceberg "could produce about 150 million litres per day for about a year", around 30% of the city's needs, Nick Sloane, a director at the US marine salvage firm Resolve Marine, told Reuters news agency.
After three years of low rainfall Cape Town has been warned that it may have to turn off water supplies, but seasonal rains averted the crisis.
Mr Sloane is looking for investors for the scheme that he has said would cost $130m (£95m) and experts will gather in mid-May to discuss whether his plan is possible.