As a current NASA program revealed, The Great Artesian Basin (GAB), underlying about 1.7 million square kilometers of Australia, contains about 65,000 km3<span> of water, but the water is up to 2 million years old so it is easy to extract this resource far faster than it is being replenished. So the fact that in dessert there is a lack of groundwater is a false statement. The answer to your question is FALSE.</span>
