We won’t be fooled by euphemisms: oil field wastewater is highly toxic, even if renamed “produced water”…
From Inside Climate News: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22052022/california-water-risks-produced-water/?
Learn about “forever chemicals” like PFAS, how they have contaminated millions of acres (and, potentially, our aquifers) and why industry has resisted their regulation (all because of $$, of course)…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/08/us-cropland-may-be-contaminated-forever-chemicals-study PFASs are also used in fracking: https://www.psr.org/blog/new-report-fracking-with-forever-chemicals/
Fossil-fuels production can impact our groundwater in a variety of ways…
Clean water is everything. Once it's gone it's very hard to get back. Let's be careful. Informative read here from Yellowstone Public Radio: https://www.ypradio.org/energy/2022-01-27/report-groundwater-levels-are-falling-in-parts-of-wyomings-powder-river-basin