The fracking well needs up to 1.6 million gallons of water each time a well is drilled. Of the water, sand, and chemicals the gets pumped into the ground less than half comes back up, which means that whatever is left in the ground seeps into the water supply contaminating it. Lisa Song a Boston-based reporter for the Inside Climate News, announced, “…U.S. Environmental Protection Agency linked fracking to contaminated groundwater in Pavilion, Wyoming” (Song). People from their water wells and faucets hear bubbles, hissing and gargling. The water tends to have a strong odor of gas and turpentine. Out of people’s faucets the water comes up yellowish, brown, and murky. People can light their water on fire while it is coming right out of the faucet because methane and other chemicals leaked inside the water supply. The water is unfit for consumption. People say water tastes metallically. Of the water that comes back up, the drilling industries illegally dump the toxic into fields and streams. Now people are unable to fish and swim in the streams and lakes. Dead fish and animals are found all along the banks of the
The fracking well needs up to 1.6 million gallons of water each time a well is drilled. Of the water, sand, and chemicals the gets pumped into the ground less than half comes back up, which means that whatever is left in the ground seeps into the water supply contaminating it. Lisa Song a Boston-based reporter for the Inside Climate News, announced, “…U.S. Environmental Protection Agency linked fracking to contaminated groundwater in Pavilion, Wyoming” (Song). People from their water wells and faucets hear bubbles, hissing and gargling. The water tends to have a strong odor of gas and turpentine. Out of people’s faucets the water comes up yellowish, brown, and murky. People can light their water on fire while it is coming right out of the faucet because methane and other chemicals leaked inside the water supply. The water is unfit for consumption. People say water tastes metallically. Of the water that comes back up, the drilling industries illegally dump the toxic into fields and streams. Now people are unable to fish and swim in the streams and lakes. Dead fish and animals are found all along the banks of the