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Monster Fracking Wells Guzzle Water Drought-Stricken Regions
2014-11-24 19:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The fracking industry likes to minimize the sectors bottomless thirst for often-scarce water resources, saying it takes about 2-4 million gallons of water to frack the average well, an amount the American Petroleum Institute describes as the equivalent of three to six Olympic swimming pools. Thats close to the figure cited by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well. But a new report released by Environmental Working Group (EWG) located 261 monster wells that consumed between...
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