A Steady Increase in the Water Footprint at US Fracking Sites (IMAGE)

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A Steady Increase in the Water Footprint at US Fracking Sites

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These are shale oil wells in the Bakken region, North Dakota.

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Avner Vengosh Vengosh, PhD, Duke University

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