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Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought, Even as Drilling and Oil Production Fell

Inside Climate News · By Liza Gross · last updated
Oil and gas operators dramatically increased their reliance on high-quality water for fracking even though they produced enough wastewater to supply the operations.

By Liza Gross

In the middle of the longest-running drought in more than a thousand years, Colorado energy companies diverted rising volumes of the state’s freshwater resources for fracking, a new analysis shows.

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