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Drinking Water, Environment and Ice  Can We Solve the Global
Water Shortage By Melting Icebergs?  icedream, drinking water,
water, icebergs, Greenland, arctic  Here's an apparently
ridiculous idea for solving the world's drinking water
shortages: Tow massive icebergs from the Arctic and Antarctic to
the dry, populous regions that are desperate for water. It may
be crazy, but it also just might work.  A French engineer,
Georges Mougin, has actually spent the past three decades
working on the concept, ever since a Saudi prince challenged him
in 1975 to bring an iceberg up from Antarctic to the Arabian
peninsula. He failed and failed again, but the obstacles—mostly
incredibly rough and unpredictable ocean conditions—seemed like
they could be overcome. A few years back, with the advent of
advanced ocean forecasting methods, Mougin relaunched the
project as IceDream. Today, he's got a whole team of
glaciologists and engineers working to figure it out