Sentences with phrase «underground drinking water sources»

It breaks down slowly and can move readily through soil to make its way into underground drinking water sources.

Not exact matches

«It starts to finger - point stronger and stronger to the source being somehow related to the gas development, including, but not necessarily conclusively, hydraulic fracturing itself,» said Nathan Wiser, an EPA scientist and hydraulic fracturing expert who oversees enforcement for the underground injection control program under the Safe Drinking Water Act in the Rocky Mountain region.

Since this water isn't a source of drinking water and is underground, the contamination isn't an immediate public health threat, says Sanial, now a geochemist at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

Casing and cement impairment in oil and gas wells can lead to methane migration into the atmosphere and / or into underground sources of drinking water.

Americans get half their drinking water from underground sources.

A lifelong advocate for our coast, Williams championed required testing of groundwater before, during, and after hydraulic fracturing, which was included in California's regulations on fracking, and authored legislation to expand groundwater monitoring to other types of injection wells to protect underground sources of drinking water from oil and gas wastewater disposal.

In communities where underground water sources have dried up entirely, all agriculture is rain - fed and drinking water is trucked in.

For one thing, saving large open spaces protects the local aquifer, the underground layer of rock that stores rainwater and melting snow, and our prime source of drinking water.

In the process of fracking, the «toxic soup» of chemicals used to break apart shale rock can leach into underground aquifers, wells and other drinking sources, contaminating the water lines that flow into hundreds or thousands of local businesses and homes.