People May Die of Thirst as Fossil Fuel Production Exhausts and Pollutes Our Fresh Water Supply

[Champion Jack]

Last edited Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:26 PM - Edit history (2)

You cannot live without water, but the fossil fuel industry is counting on squeezing the last drop out of the Earth to extract oil and natural gas.
It's privatize the profits and socialize the costs… Every time

"Significant risks" is perhaps an understatement as to the threat posed by such oil and other fossil fuel extraction processes that threaten a global non-salt water supply that is already inadequate and is highly likely to decrease due to global warming.

A February Guardian UK commentary noted in an aritcle entitled, "Fracking is depleting water supplies in America's driest areas, report shows. From Texas to California, drilling for oil and gas is using billions of gallons of water in the country's most drought-prone areas":

America's oil and gas rush is depleting water supplies in the driest and most drought-prone areas of the country, from Texas to California, new research has found.

Of the nearly 40,000 oil and gas wells drilled since 2011, three-quarters were located in areas where water is scarce, and 55% were in areas experiencing drought, the report by the Ceres investor network found.

Fracking those wells used 97 billion gallons of water, raising new concerns about unforeseen costs of America's energy rush.

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/people-may-die-of-thirst-as-fossil-fuel-production-exhausts-and-pollutes-our-fresh-water-supply-1

[SamKnause]

1. Thanks for posting.

The last sentence in your post should read; Fracking those well used 97 billion gallons of water, raising new concerns

about the unforeseen costs of America's energy rush.

You omitted the billion.

It happens to all of us.

Have a great day.

[Champion Jack]

2. Thanks for the heads up ......it's been fixed

[daleanime]

3. kick, kick, kick.....