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both conventional oil drilling and fracking, as many as 8
barrels of water are used and turned into "produced" wastewater
for every 1 barrel of oil produced, and that wastewater, which
cannot be recycled, can be carcinogenic, radioactive and capable
of contaminating local water supplies should it migrate to
groundwater tables from casing failure or mishandled at the
surface.  Farmers see endangered species protection and
potential fracking proliferation as adversaries to food
production in California Photo credit: Dan AielloIt is not
widely known that oil production demands huge amounts of water
and that water must be disposed of as carefully as oil must be
handled to prevent environmental catastrophe. In California,
water is as precious as oil and the possibility that local
groundwater is in peril from an expected fracking boom worries
farmers, environmentalists and water-thirsty district