Tanker trucks filling water reservoir at hydro-fracking gas drilling operations near Sopertown, PA. Fracking uses unfathomable amounts of fresh water -- sometimes more than ten million gallons per well -- to feed our hydrocarbon addiction. • #go
Pressure • The actual process of hydro-fracking involves arraying numerous compressors around a well head manifold (seen in green in the top left) and pressurizing the system with millions of gallons of fresh water (depleting local groundwater o
Drill Waste • Layers of shale usually contain uranium and radium, as well as many other trace elements. Waste water from a hydro-fracking drilling operation contains pulverized shale and any elements found with it, petroleum lubricants, heavy me