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Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation has acquired water that is more than a billion years old!

Tuesday, December 08, 2020 11:10 AM | Deleted user

OTTAWA -- A bottle of water more than a billion years old is now stored in Ottawa.

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation has acquired a water sample collected 2.4 kilometres below the earth's surface from the Kidd Creek Mine, near Timmins, Ont.

University of Toronto geologist Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar discovered the oldest flowing water in 2009.