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Several years ago we prepared a comprehensive assessment for California of the risks of fracking for #water resources, concluding it wasn't the amount of water needed but the massive threat to groundwater from contamination.
Texas is proving the point. Excellent article here.

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Powering the Planet · A Dirty Water War in the Texas DesertHistory is likely to show that the idea of permanently polluting huge amounts of water and then trying to bury that water deep underground under high pressure likely was a really bad idea.
It may not look like much, but the light coloring on this little piece of filter paper is around 2 billion marine bacteria. While I've been out sailing along Line P, I'm trapping bacteria on these slips of paper by pumping water through the tiny little holes in the paper that are smaller than the bacteria but large enough for water to slip through. Once I get these to the lab, I can pop the bacteria open to collect their DNA and see who lives in the water and what they can do.

#science #scientist #marinescience #marinebiology #biology #microbiology #bacteria #pacificocean #environment #water