Fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirsty

[ibx 2]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/11/texas-tragedy-ample-oil-no-water

[dmcoco84 5]

Awww, isn't that cute. Because none of the other bull shit you tried to present stuck... its now about too much water; this won't stick either.


And now I'll read the article.

[dmcoco84 5]

Quote

Paragraph Four:

Three years of drought, decades of overuse and now the oil industry's outsize demands on water for fracking are running down reservoirs and underground aquifers. And climate change is making things worse.

1) Three years of drought
2) DECADES of overuse
3) AND NOW... fracking.

4) Don't forget about climate change.

Oh Fuck Off.

[dmcoco84 5]

Quote

The drought undoubtedly took its toll but Owens reserved his anger for the contractors who drilled 104 water wells on his leased land, to supply the oil companies.

Water levels were dropping in his wells because of the vast amounts of water being pumped out of the Edwards-Trinity-Plateau Aquifer, a 34,000 sq mile water bearing formation.

"They are sucking all of the water out of the ground, and there are just hundreds and hundreds of water trucks here every day bringing fresh water out of the wells," Owens said.

Looks to me like you fucked up, bucko!

[dmcoco84 5]

Wraps up with a buncha climate change bull shit...

and the last paragraph being:

"We've got to get floods. We've got to get a hurricane to move up in our country and just saturate everything to replenish the aquifer," he said. "Because when the water is gone. That's it. We're gone."

Well, you are in luck! Because climate change causes floods and hurricanes... so there will be one along in no time.

Where then we can say climate change destroyed everything and we need to take action against climate change.



Psst... Bull Shit Article.

[lawrocket 3]

Here in Fresno, we have groundwater. But our main supply of water comes from snow in the Sierras. Problem is that the government won't allow that water to be used for things like feeding the fucking country because the Bay Area folks need a clean supply of water to dump its sewage. There's water available, and farmers are getting a 10% allocation.

Water is a BIG issue. And it's complicated. But I'll tell you this - use of water for drinking and farming is at the lowest priority.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[airdvr 210]

Constantly amazed that people would want to reside in your state.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[kelpdiver 2]

lawrocket

Water is a BIG issue. And it's complicated. But I'll tell you this - use of water for drinking and farming is at the lowest priority.

want to share the quantities used for drinking and farming? How dishonest are you going to be here, claiming SF sewage needs and drinking water is responsible for Fresno farmers getting 10% of their "allocation."

When 10% of California's water goes to urban use, and over 75% goes to agriculture, the math doesn't add up for you.

----
Back on the subject of fracking - there is very little fresh water on the planet and using such large quantities of it, coupled with some nasty chemicals, to run the extraction seems like a gamble.

It was only a decade ago that California fucked up big time with the use of MTBE in gasoline. We had to pay to convert everything to this, and then away from it when it started leaking into the ground water.