Blog 2

                 Water contamination next to areas of hydraulic fracturing have caused cases of sensory, respiratory, and neurological damage due to ingested contaminated water. Wouldn’t it be awful to have your safe drinking water you use every day to become poisoned with dangerous toxins? This soon could be coming to a neighborhood near you. A major effect of fracking is water pollution. This water pollution can harm people and even animals that drink from nearby streams and lakes.

                As fracking spreads more and more across the United States research is being done to find out how it effects people and the environment. Research has shown how it negatively effects our water supply. For example, according to dangersoffracking.com during the process of hydraulic fracking, methane gas and toxic chemicals leach out from the system and contaminate nearby groundwater. This does not necessarily contribute to the well water contaminations, but this is how it can effect animals and the environment. But not only can it harm animals it can be harmful to humans as well. Dangerdoffracking.com states that 600 harmful and toxic chemicals are pumped into the ground that can leak into our water supply. Some of these chemicals are uranium, methanol, hydrochloric acid, radium and lead just to name a few. To me it seems common sense that I would not want to even think about drinking any of these chemicals.

                Fracking some benefits but at what cost? Water is the most important element to life and fracking harms our water supply. Contaminating our own water supply sounds extremely irresponsible, and ignorant. Not only can it hurt us it hurts our surrounding environment such as animals. Laws need to be passed to slow the spread of fracking and increase research to find other safer ways of extracting gas and other fuels. Not only would this protect us from toxic water, it will prevent us from the of sensory, respiratory, and neurological damage that has already emerged in some areas.

Work Cited

Dong, L. What Goes In and Out of Hydraulic Fracking. Dangers of fracking. Web. 13 Nov 2013.                 <http://www.dangersoffracking.com/>.

                This website shows specifically where and what dangers come from fracking. It shows in great detail how each step of fracking is done and shows where the issues occur.