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Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home. Yes, it is the show where we bring you some of the more interesting and downright

cool stories from around the world.

He's Reggie Rizu, and I'm Marcus Paff.

On today's episode, A Massive Aquifer, discovered in the Oregon Cascades.

Could it have implications for the water-starved Western U.S.?

And you'll never believe what one Japanese

company is using to make toilet paper. No, it's not people, Soilent Green reference there,

but it is a little bit gross. Plus, on this day in history, Popeye makes his first appearance,

all coming up on Cool Stuff Ride Home. Turning now to research out of the University of Oregon, as summarized by author Laurel Hamers.

Oregon's Cascade Range Mountains might not hold gold, but they store another precious resource in abundance.

Water.

Scientists from the University of Oregon and their partners have mapped the amount of water stored beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades and found an aquifer many times larger than previously estimated, at least 81 cubic kilometers.

That's almost three times the maximum capacity of Lake Mead, the currently overdrawn

reservoir along the Colorado River that supplies water to California, Arizona, and Nevada,

and greater than half the volume of Lake Tahoe.

Now, the finding has implications for the way scientists and policymakers think about water in the

region, an increasingly urgent issue across

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