The 600 - plus - page report that resulted looks at a variety
of ways fracking could have an effect on local drinking
water: withdrawing
millions of gallons of water needed to frack a well, improperly mixing chemicals with the
water at the well, injecting that fracking fluid into the ground at high pressure to fracture rock as much as two miles beneath the surface,
handling the contaminated
water then produced by the well and finally improperly storing or disposing
of that
water.