Billions of gallons of wastewater have polluted into California’s drinking supply.
After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water and farm irrigation, the EPAordered a report within 60 days.
It was revealed yesterday that the California State Water Resources Board has sent a letter to the EPA confirming that at least nine of those sites were in fact dumping wastewater contaminated with fracking fluids and other pollutants into aquifers protected by state law and the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
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Timothy Krantz, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Redlands, says these chemicals could pose a serious risk to public health: “The fact that high concentrations are showing up in multiple water wells close to wastewater injection sites raises major concerns about the health and safety of nearby residents.”
Source: Desmog Blog
Not only is California’s water supply terminally affected by the wastewater, the process of fracking exacerbates the drought that California is currently experiencing.
This comes at a time when California’s water supply may evaporate entirely within a matter of months, with no backup plan in place. This hasn’t stopped the California state government from devoting billions of gallons of water to make fish happy. Crazy!
If something isn’t done soon, California will revert to a desert hellscape.
Cracking getting the blame again.
CALIF has the entire West coast PACIFIC OCEAN to desalination plant capabilities. Forget fracking. Just r/o the salt water–BALDY = Gov. Jerry Brown: Forget your stupid bullet train and get Israel’s engineers to help design efficient water purifiers like they have in Israel.
Don’t expect any help from our government, same old, same old from the Dumbama regime. They are too busy with their own projects to worry about a little thing like poisoned water, same as Flint and Ohio. As long as they are getting what they want in Washington they could care less about the rest of the country.
The feds are doing this deliberately. They want to conyrol the Pacific coast line.