Imagine crossing the border to get a drink of water.
Mexico City plans to draw drinking water from a mile-deep aquifer, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The Mexican effort challenges a key tenet of U.S. clean water policy: that water far underground can be intentionally polluted because it will never be used.
Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to Drink
by Abrahm Lustgarten
ProPublica, Jan. 25, 2013
I’ve often said that someday taxpayers will pay to retrieve and “clean up” the water pumped into the deep injection wells by the fracking industry. Of course, clean up of that water is currently impossible.
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Beware the water treatment anyway. “Treating” contaminated water can be, and often is, one very stinky affair. Emissions to air associated with these activities pose potential risks of their own. Especially when dithiocarbamate (CS2-based) additives are involved.
Yes! I’ve been told the Devon water treatment facility is the nastiest facility with the stinkiest emissions in the whole Barnett Shale.
That would make sense.