Next time somebody tells you Fracking uses too much water, tell them to quit watering their lawn: Texas Lawns Use 18 Times More Water Than Fracturing - The Texas Water Development Board also has reported that 31 percent of the residential water consumed in the state is used outside homes, according to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal by Rusty Todd, who teaches editing and business journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. “In 2010, that amounted to 495 billion gallons,” Todd wrote. “In 2011, according to the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, fracking accounted for 26.6 billion gallons statewide. So in Texas (a big state with arid regions) lawns consume roughly 18 times more water than fracking does.” forbes/sites/davidblackmon/2013/07/19/energysense-weekly-oil-and-gas-follies/
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:57:33 +0000
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