Response to the following questions:
1. How much water on average is needed by a hydraulic fracturing well to be operational? Cite your source. Explain the processes that can lead to the contamination of drinking water by hydraulic fracturing.
2. Given that hydraulic fracturing uses large amounts water, how do you think this will affect Agriculture in nearby areas?
Practical Guide:
1. Do some Research and and make a list of studies that show drinking water has been contaminated from hydraulic fracturing fluids.
2. Explain how the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act applies to hydraulic fracturing.
3. Try to think of solutions on how contamination of drinking water by this process can be prevented and write at least two (2) here.
4. In todays' demonstration of hydraulic fracturing and drinking water contamination; holes explain what the inner compartment with holes represents and what the one represent. Now explain what the ink and the water represent in both containers.
5. Describe what you observed occurring the container whose inner compartment had holes or where hydraulic fracturing has occurred and for the container whose inner compartment had no holes or where the sedimentary rock layers have not been fractured.
6. Use this demonstration to explain how hydraulic fracturing can lead to ground water contamination.
7. List three (3) benefits of hydraulic fracturing that most advocates use to show that hydraulic fracturing is worth the risk of drinking water contamination.