Fracking in the US

 

Daily Kos Staff

Friday August 17, 2018 · 9:23 AM PDT

A new study out of Duke University shows that fracking operations in the United States have boomed in their use of water over the past five years. The researchers found that between 2011 and 2016, the amount of water being used, per well, increased 770 percent. On top of that—during the same time—the amount of “brine-laden” wastewater generated by those wells increased 1,440 percent.

 

http://winewaterwatch.org/2018/08/fracking-use-of-water-has-increased-770-over-the-last-5-years-and-thats-just-the-beginning/