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World’s oldest water found in Canada, Oxford researchers say it dates back 1.6 billion years

A team from the University of Toronto in Canada has discovered what could be the ‘oldest’ water on Earth.

The researchers found the samples of water from a mine in Ontario in 2009. Tests conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford found that the mean age of the samples was 1.6 billion years old, making it the oldest water sample ever found on Earth.