FILE PHOTO: Adelie penguins stand atop ice near the French station at Dumont díUrville in East Antarctica, January 22, 2010. REUTERS/Pauline Askin//File Photo
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Marine salvage experts are floating a plan to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa's drought-hit Cape Town to help solve the region's worst water shortage in a century.
Salvage master Nick Sloane told Reuters he was looking for government and private investors for a scheme to guide huge chunks of ice across the ocean, chop them into a slury and melt them down into millions of litres of drinking water.
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