Fracking Is Depleting Water Supplies In America's Driest Areas, Report Shows

From Texas to California, drilling for oil and gas is using billions of gallons of water in the country's most drought-prone areas An aerial photograph shows a large field of fracking sites in a north-western Colorado valley. It can take millions of gallons of fresh water to frack a single well. Photograph: Susan Heller/Getty images America's oil and gas rush is depleting water supplies in the driest and most drought-prone areas of the country, from Texas to California, new research has found. Of the nearly 40,000 oil and gas wells drilled since 2011, three-quarters were located in areas where water is scarce,...more »