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Hats off to Bob Woodruff for his excellent A Closer Look at one aspect of the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region for ABC. "Poverty, war, violence and thirst are crushing facts of life here," Woodruff asserted. So he decided to focus on the thirst, on the assumption that freely available water will diminish ethnic rivalries and dampen the violence. Woodruff tagged along with Farouk el-Baz, a former NASA scientist, now with the Center for Remote Sensing: el-Baz believes he can spot underground aquifers by studying satellite photographs. The taller the sand dunes on the surface, the more likely it is that water can be found underneath. The scientist has told the United Nations that there is an underwater lake "the size of Lake Erie" under the sands of northern Sudan and has secured funding from both Sudan and Egypt to start drilling.
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