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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute?

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Bottled water companies often brag about the purity of their drinks.

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Just imagine if they found a water source that's been cut off from the outside world for well over a billion years.

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Well, scientists have discovered just that--an isolated reservoir 2.4 kilometers underground in Ontario.

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They examined fluids seeping out of fractures in a mine and found particular isotopes of the noble gas xenon.

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By comparing these isotopes to those known to have been in the ancient atmosphere, the researchers dated the slowly escaping water to be at least 1.5 billion years old, some of the oldest known.

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As the rocks around the water are 2.64 billion years old, the water may be too.

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The finding is in the journal Nature.

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The liquid also contains dissolved gases such as methane and hydrogen, which in sunless environments support microbial life.

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The discovery of any microbes would support the hope that similar underground life might exist on Mars and elsewhere.

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In short, this ancient water could hold gas, microbes and hints about extraterrestrial life.

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So let's forego finding out how it tastes.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick.

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