Water Supplies Soaked Up By Oil Industry in California
Photo by CGP Grey via Flickr Creative Commons Extracting and refining oil is a water-costly process. California doesn’t have much water to spare, yet it is pouring billions of gallons of this invaluable substance into its oil business. Right now, oil companies in Kern county use as much as 8 barrels of water for each barrel of oil produced. Oil companies consumed 83% of the district’s water allocation last year. Is this really the wisest use of a resource that, in so many ways, is far more precious than oil? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Water Supplies Soaked Up By Oil Industry in California
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