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Study Shows Effects of Fracking on Drinking Water Sources

Stanford scientists have found that a small Wyoming town's underground drinking water sources have been impacted by fracking.

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Vantage Energy on June 1, 2015 resumed hydraulic operations on a pad site on the western outskirts of Denton. It was the first company to frack within city limits after the Texas Legislature overturned the Denton’s ban on the process.
Credit: Cooper Neill

Stanford scientists have found that a small Wyoming town's underground drinking water sources have been impacted by fracking. The study, which was published in Environmental Science & Technology, has implications for widespread common practices, such as dumping of drilling and production fluids, in the fracking industry. (Water Online)

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