Barnett shale
Water Usage in the Barnett Shale
A study by the University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology estimated that drilling and hydraulic fracturing in the Barnett Shale used 8.5 billion gallons of water in a 15-county region in 2011. The lead researcher, Jean-Philippe Nicot, said that while those water volumes are not negligible, they are “not much in the grand scheme of the water cycle.”
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