All the World's a Septic Tank!

Leafing through my weekly newsletter from NewScientist Magazine, I managed to stumble across this little tacked-on story. Seismologists (I believe) have discovered what appears to be a huge water well underneath China, whose reserves are speculated to hold as much water as the Arctic Ocean. Pretty neat, I'd say. If they end up finding more (or deciding that it's frozen on land at the poles), there may be a geological explanation as to where all the water from the "flood" went...