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Originally Posted by MargaretR
"Water is by far the largest component of fracking fluids. According to driller Chesapeake Energy, an initial drilling operation itself may consume from 6,000 to 600,000 US gallons of fracking fluids, but over its lifetime an average well may require up to an additional 5 million gallons of water for full operation and possible restimulation frac jobs.
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5 million over the life of a well is nothing compared to the amount of water that is lost every day to leaks. In 2010 the water companies were losing 3.3 billion litres every day in leaks according to the Independent in the link
Water torture: 3,300,000,000 litres are lost every single day through leakage - Home News - UK - The Independent
That makes the water used by fracking tiny and insignificant - did you ignore the leaks thing because it didn't help your argument?