Today is WORLD WATER DAY! https://www.worldwaterday.org Did you know that only 3% of the earth’s water is fresh. 2.5% of that water is unavailable – it’s locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps, atmosphere, and soil; highly polluted; or lies too far...
What’s holding parched California back from treating and reusing its produced water (wastewater) from oil & gas drilling? The Bakersfield Californian reported recently that it’s money. John Cox reports that “treating oilfield produced water can be expensive, not...
State regulators approved an energy company’s request to inject millions of gallons of oil and gas wastewater into a freshwater aquifer in central Wyoming!!! Whaaaaat? O&G wastewater (aka produced water) has heavy metals, organic hydrocarbons, chemicals, salt and...
Looks like a harmless body of water, right? Maybe not. I hadn’t heard of this happening for years – not since I lived in Orlando when a couple of people died from the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri. Our parents always warned us not to dive into, or...
If you could help the states that are drying up, get 876 billion gallons more of water, would you do it? All it would take is putting regulations in place that would allow the treatment and reuse of produced water for agriculture, or at the oil & gas well pad...
