Texas town runs out of water after using it for fracking

[Divernan]

47. Annual H2O use for fracking is 100% consumptive

Roughly 90-95% of residential water used indoors returns to a wastewater treatment plant and is ultimately released to streams or reused. But water used for fracking is too contaminated and polluted with toxic chemicals and minerals to be reused EVER.

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Basically, your water is being driven away.Your Water Is Driving Away
A recent report completed for Douglas County, CO estimates 11, 040 loaded truck trips for one well pad (containing six wells) over a 265 day period.

6,000 trips were made to haul fracking water
3,000 trips were for wastewater disposal

Bureau of Land Management report estimates 1,160 truck visits are required to develop each well."

So what happens to those other 3,000 tanker trucks full of chemically laced water, per well, which have been pumped
into the ground under pressure? Well, they are not recovered but seep through the ground to pollute the water tables and seep into our creeks, ponds, streams and rivers, from which they poison plant life and animal life, not to mention private wells relied upon by millions of Americans.

Fracking Our Future: Where's the Water?
Everything You Need to Know About Water and Community Impacts from Hydraulic Fracturing

Fracking Our Future is the first report to provide a comprehensive measure of water and community impacts from hydraulicfracturing. This timely report addresses the questions, "How much water is required for new production, such as through the process of hydraulic fracturing, and where will that water come from?" It provides specific recommendations to guide future development that decision makers can use in developing policies to make sure that water resources are properly managed along with oil and gas development.

http://www.westernresourceadvocates.org/frackwater/