Editorial - Shale and Our Water - NYTimes.com

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Publication Type:

Newspaper Article

Authors:

New York Times,

Source:

The New York Times (2009)

ISBN:

0362-4331

URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/opinion/17sat1.html?_r=1

Keywords:

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Notes:

New York Times Editorial. Published: October 16, 2009.

Regulators must amend the rules to bar drilling in the New York City watershed: a million acres of forests and farmlands whose streams supply the reservoirs that send drinking water to eight million people.

Accidental leaks could threaten public health and require a filtration system the city can ill afford...“fracking” has been implicated in hundreds of cases of impaired or polluted drinking water supplies in states from Alabama to Wyoming.