re: #173 austin_blue

Absolutely true, but a temporary fix. We’ve got West Texans already drinking their own wastewater, but it’s damn expensive and can’t take any large increase in population because water there is a finite resource. Like land, they aren’t making any more of it.

Oh, and this is the fun bit, groundwater removal used in fracking (necessary for the boom in the old West Texas Permian Basin the last seven years) is unregulated, untaxed, and untouchable under State Law.

Sweeeeeet!

Bonus points for the fact that fracking is also polluting the same aquifers and potentially causing permanent damage to water sources for millions of people without any of them knowing it.