For the past six years, Shale Network researchers have collected and
published water quality data online.
Not exact matches
Improved but not necessarily safe One report,
published earlier this year in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, analyzed
water quality test
data from five countries (Ethiopia, Jordan, Nicaragua, Nigeria and Tajikistan) and found that many sources of «improved»
water failed the safety test.
For more than 3 decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had been compiling information about
water quality violations across the country — but no one had
published a national assessment looking at long - term trends in those
data.
A shared interest in gathering, discussing and improving
water quality data among diverse groups can lead to productive conversations that
data alone can not address, the scientists reported in «Engaging over
data on fracking and
water quality,»
published in the journal Science.
EPA's draft report contains quantitative scientific
data (including over 950 sources of information,
published papers, numerous technical reports, information from stakeholders and peer - reviewed EPA scientific reports) that support existing language saying that there is no widespread, systemic impact on the
quality of drinking
water.