by Deborah A. Deal, APR | Nov 19, 2020 | Environment, Industrial Wastewater, IX Water, O & G Produced Wastewater, Uncategorized, Wastewater
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...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | Nov 12, 2020 | Drinking Water, Industrial Wastewater, O & G Produced Wastewater, Wastewater
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...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | Sep 28, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Health, Water
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...
by Deborah A. Deal, APR | Aug 31, 2020 | Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Wastewater, IX Power Clean Water, IX Water, O & G Produced Wastewater, Water
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...
by Ellie Cabell | Aug 11, 2020 | Climate Change, Drinking Water, Environment, Industrial Pollution, Industrial Wastewater, IX Power Clean Water, IX Water, Uncategorized, Water
The temperature along Colorado’s Western Slope is rising twice as fast as the average around the world. 20 years of drought and warming temperatures have decreased Colorado River water flow 20% in the last 50 years. Because of climate change, including regional...
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