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The (UK) Guardian: A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water

Posted Mon, 2013/08/19 - 9:40am by RCAP

Excerpts from an Aug. 11 article in the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper about communities in Texas:

"Three years of drought, decades of overuse and now the oil industry's outsize demands on water for fracking are running down reservoirs and underground aquifers. And climate change is making things worse."

"'Because when the water is gone. That's it. We're gone.'"

Read the full article [1]

Topics:
- climate change [2],
- fracking [3],
- hydraulic fracturing [4],
- drought [5],
- shortage [6],
- agriculture [7],
- farming [8],
- oil [9],
- ground water [10]

Source URL: http://www.rcap.org/node/1300

Links:
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/11/texas-tragedy-ample-oil-no-water?utm_source=Circle+of+Blue+WaterNews+%26+Alerts&utm_campaign=a18e3449d7-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c1265b6ed7-a18e3449d7-250659753
[2] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/154
[3] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/210
[4] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/75
[5] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/728
[6] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/730
[7] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/123
[8] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/401
[9] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/323
[10] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/218