Fracking is bad – And the West had better watch its water

Last week, national intelligence agencies released the unclassified version of a report which predicts that nations and regions will increasingly go to war over water as global warming, population and consumption continue to grow. Living in a headwaters state, Montanans know well just how precious the abundant clean waters flowing from our mountains and unsullied wilderness areas are to our economy, lifestyles and health. Increasingly, however, it appears that what will really count in the future will not be simply water quantity, but water quality. And in that regard, Montana, even with its headwaters location, is not immune from threat.

by George Ochenski

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WaterDefense.org

Water is our most precious resource. It’s also one of the scarcest. Less than one tenth of one percent of all the water on earth is safe and available for us to use. One in five people worldwide doesn’t have safe drinking water. One in two don’t have water for sanitation.

Here in America, the fossil fuel industry has brought the water crisis to our doorstep. Mining and drilling have poisoned countless communities’ drinking water with methane, benzene, lead, and thousands of other known carcinogens and deadly toxins, leaving parents helpless to protect their children from what comes out of the tap.

What we get in exchange for those billions of gallons of poisoned water is a warming planet. Today, as global carbon emissions continue to rise and we careen towards climate tipping points, humanity faces the most serious crisis in our history. If we don’t dramatically reduce carbon emissions soon, we’ll pass the point of no return.

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