Look at how much the population of Texas has grown in the last 50 years. Now now see how much has been invested in wells, water treatment facillities, and municipal plumbing. It's the same with California.
"Underground water that is polluted by fracking chemicals can not be cleaned in the normal cycle."
Fracking is a way to get petroleum / gas from shales. Shales are basically geologically reworked clays and are relatively impermeable, meaning groundwater doesn't flow through them very well. Shales also tend to have bad water quality particularly near the petroleum. This groundwater therefore isn't really used for drinking. The dangers from fracking are wildly exaggerated by those who have a knee jerk reaction to the US getting cheap dependable energy. There has been a war of disinformation by the left to demonize all energy. Don't be gullible. They are lying to you. I realize that it is hard to believe that people would actually lie about something like this. It is despicable but true.
I think if you want an example of the propaganda the fuel industry has pushed on this look to jim/maxx who speak with one voice (probably literally)
Do the greens protest fracking, yes but they are being joined by traditional adversaries farmers who also are concerned about the effects on ground water which will feed back into the crops they are growing that in the end we will eat. Scientists from outside the oil industry also say we need to take more time to study the health effects, but the oil industry want to push ahead without waiting. Oil industry groups try to bundle every one as "greens" a tactic they also try to use in climate change, but that is simply not the case.
CFACT is a blog obviously trying to push the positives (with a warm blue glow) quoting the countries that support it, there's lot of talk of cheap natural gas rather than practical things like what are the chemicals in that claimed 0.5%, I wonder if jim/maxx would like a nice warm cup of these
http://fracfocus.org/chemical-use/what-c...
We used to use Hydrochloric Acid in a 5% solution in a lab wash container to kill (anything on contaminated lab glassware)
Some chemicals are used directly as Biocide's to kill bacteria, chemicals like Glutaraldehyde this is to kill bacteria in the water which cause corrosion in the pipe work, yet those like jimbomaxx seem to have no concern what these chemicals will go on to do in the water table and then into crops which we eat.
While the greens do push for action on this (as oil industry groups claim) it is also true that industry (including the oil industry) has a pretty long and sordid history of trying to cover up the health effects of things like this with misinformation campaigns, sadly there are now many examples of them being sued (after the fact) for the harm many different chemicals have caused in water contamination, health effects and birth defects.
Those like jim/maxx play the game of trying to make this a liberal conspiracy (just as they do with climate change) but real research is showing that whatever our pretend geologist may invent, real research is showing that the chemical used in fracking do find their way into the ground water supply.
http://press.endocrine.org/doi/abs/10.12...
Which you can compare to maxx's claim
"There is zero evidence that fracking causes or has ever caused any pollution to ground water."
As I have sadly said many times before, deniers seem to just make up unsupported statements.
You don't seem to understand how we get fresh water.
The Earth is 2/3eds covered with water. The Sun and wind evaporate water, mostly ocean water, and clouds form. The clouds are carried over land by wind. When the right atmospheric conditions are met, the water vapor (clouds) condense and it rains.
The rain supplies us with fresh water and waters the planet. Then it eventually drains into a river or an aquifer and it flows back to the ocean. And the whole process starts over again.
Water is naturally recycled, we are not running out. No matter how polluted water becomes, when it evaporates, it’s pure water again.
Learn about the water cycle:
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercyclee...
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There is zero evidence that fracking causes or has ever caused any pollution to ground water. Fracking fluids are mostly water. Over 99.5% of the fluids is water and sand. The other 0.5% is chemicals to keep sand particles suspended in the liquid, fight bacterial growth and improve gas production. http://www.cfact.org/2012/03/29/fracking...
And there are currently no unusual drought patterns.
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Wage Slave is right, if you don't have enough water in your area it's probably because you don't have sufficient reservoirs. You can't expect the rain to increase for a given area just because it's population grows or because for whatever reason the water demand increases. The normal rain cycle for a given area is what it is.
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How are you going to pump water if you don't have energy (oil)
line and pump water from the frozen glaciers to water the breadbasket land and refill our drinking water aquifers? Without water we all die, we don't need more oil? Only oil companies need more oil. Who will be able to buy water when they finish polluting all ours.?
