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Re:Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hi... by codingdave on Monday July 21, 2025 @11:37AM (#44636463)
That is not a fair comparison... not that I love the high use of golf courses, either, but at least that use is just water. It flows back into the water cycle, and thereby can be re-used infinitely. But fracking water has been poisoned. It removes the infinite re-use and makes it into toxic waste.
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Re:Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hi... by ryao on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:25PM (#44637827)
The water cycle involves a natural distillation. Distillation removes pollutants, so the water can be reused.
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Re:Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hi... by jasonephraim on Monday July 21, 2025 @02:30PM (#44638671)
At least in Colorado, they use "injection wells" to inject the fracking liquids deep below aquifers. This water does not (at least, by design) re-enter the water cycle. It is permanently sequestered in deep geologic formations.
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