The Tarrant Regional Water District (same district that just put on the fireworks display in Fort Worth with Chesapeake, how much did that cost YOU?) says they will have to place restrictions on water soon.
You can read about it in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. And what did Durango have to say?
Yesterday, in the short distance I drove by the Trinity River, I saw 3 instances of multiple pipelines sucking water out of the Trinity River by Barnett Shale Natural Gas Drillers.
In June Fort Worth broke its water use record, using an all-time high of 8 billion gallons.
How many of those gallons were injected into natural gas wells, I could not help but wonder?
No mention was made, in the article, about the drought, in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, regarding the fact that a new heavy user of water has moved into town in recent years. One would think mention of this would be made in an article about the local water woes.
Here's a thought, tell the drillers to bring their own water. And take their flow back, back with them.
Remember in the good ol' days when our slogan was "don't mess with Texas". Unfortunately these days, that cowboy is all hat.
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