Fracking produces vast quantities of wastewater, and a Texas law would treat it and use it for crops and industry. Here’s ...

There seems to be a very simple answer to the question of what to do with toxic fracking water. Reuse it for more fracking. Instead of creating more toxic waste ...

An estimated 168 billion gallons of wastewater -- or produced water -- is generated annually by the Permian Basin fracking industry, according to a 2022 report. The major waste stream has proved ...

The state prohibits oil companies from discharging untreated produced water into lakes and rivers. Instead they must put the resurfaced produced water in a disposal well or reuse it for more fracking.

Produced water is a blanket term that covers everything from used fracking fluid to ancient, extra salty seawater that gurgles up with crude oil. The chemicals and minerals in it vary from state ...

A jar holding wastewater from hydraulic fracturing is held up to the light at a recycling site in Midland, Texas, on Sept. 24, 2013. The drilling method known as fracking uses huge amounts of high ...

Fracking wastewater slashed from 'strategic supply' bill, ... The 2019 Produced Water Act directed the commission to draft regulations on the reuse of produced water, ...

In a landmark decision, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that drilling companies-not surface landowners-hold ownership rights to produced water, the wastewater generated during oil and gas extraction.

As New Mexico's water supply dwindles, lawmakers search for new solutions, one of which could be the reuse of oil-industry fracking water, though much research is still required.

Produced water, salt water that is the byproduct of oil and gas production, pours from a tank onto the ground in Lea County in May. The governor wants legislators to pass a proposal that would ...

Industry leaders estimate that produced water makes up about half of the water that operators use for fracking, with the rest being mostly brackish water. Few use freshwater, experts said, a ...

Researchers watered the alfalfa with cleaned produced water from a fracking site. No contaminants were detected in the plant or soil. Credit: Eli Hartman for The Texas Tribune.