I wish the article had described what was in the contaminated water and if it was able to be treated in some way to make it safer. Unfortunately, journalism isn't what it used to be.

yeah, there's no problem with the fracking water...there's no global warning crisis...there's no radiation from nuclear explosions...there's nothing wrong with freaking up the environment and our entire future for a buck...

Ericajade, you bring up something that I knew about, but needed to be reminded of, THANK YOU !!! I am glad to see more intelligent people showing up on this site. You are totally correct on the drug thing. You want to get me wound up, that's the way to do it. That's the problem with our society today, drugs for every little discomfort, and the lack of intelligent disposal of unused drugs. Then there's the factor of what the body expells in waste products that flood into the system.

Guest: Unless I am missing something, the only way I know of, that water can defy gravity, is if it is turned into a gas or it is pressurized. I do work on some of these disposal wells, and have for years, so I do know how they work, and know the problems associated with them.I also know that the people that own these disposal wells, the landowners, make BIG MONEY. Could it be that Ms. Rackham, who is the landowner and is also an oil and gas engineer, has a problem with these disposal wells on her neighboring property, not because of polluting the drinking water, but maybe because the neghbors are getting the BIG MONEY and she is not. If you follow the money trail, you will find the truth.

Sounds like another reporter trying to make a name for himself. Fracking has been used for a long time. Where is the real story about all the pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in our drinking water? There is no technology available to filter those and we KNOW it's in our water, yet you whine over something that's not there.

The arguement about defying gravity is weak. Lots of natural things defy gravity, including water. I don't know enough about fracking to criticize much, but I do think more high school students would be better off heading to university thinking about a Petroleum Engineering degree rather than how to legalize pot.

Injection wells have been in use for a very, very long time. One doesn't hear much about problems caused from injection wells because their just aren't any. Bottom line is unless everyone wants to go back to subsistence living where everyone tries to scratch out a living via backbreaking work from sun up to sun down using rudimentary tools just to stay alive then we need big farms and we need big oil.

Good point Oilfield. I suggest that those who buy bottled water have it tested for various contaminants.

Now the next thing you know the stupid EPA will be even more invasive in the oil company.....Marfen was right....they have been trying very hard to find something they could bi$ch about.

I find it funny that you BIG Oil haters spend so much time worrying about frack water defying gravity and rising to the aquifers[like Sandymike said], especially you reporters, but you don't even consider worrying about all of the chemicals that Big Farmers dispense on top of the ground, which do not have to defy gravity, and every time it rains, gets washed directly into the aquifers. [insecticides,fertilizers,etc.] Don't believe me, get some fresh well water and put it in a soda bottle for a couple of days, then open it up and smell of it. If you get your water out of the Edwards Aquifer, then its already polluted with insecticide, you can smell it. That comes from years of spraying insecticide and fertilizers on crops west of San Antonio. If you try this with city water, you can't smell anything but chlorine. I know, because I have a place in Uvalde County with an Edwards water well. I grew up on this place. Nearly every day, farmers are spraying chemicals on their crops, and you the taxpayers are subsidizing their farming operation. Obama was right when he said[You didn't build that, somebody else built that]when it comes to Big Farmer. You the taxpayer built that thru USDA subsidies to Big Farmer. Taxpayers are paying farmers to pollute their water and TV reporters are trying to convince you that frack water defies gravity. WAKEUP S.A.