What ticks me about such announcements is that too often they don't really mean anything besides the media blowing things out of proportion. This is unfortunately very common in anything nutrition or health based, but often applies to scientific "breakthroughs" as well. The media picks up some vague research result and hyping it to make headlines.

I just really hope this is not the case here, because it's truly good news for a dry region where water means everything.

This, along with the large recent oil and natural gas discoveries kind of makes me wonder how many such additional surprises the earth crust hides, that will be discovered soon due to much better discovery technologies and computational resources.