{"id":239404,"date":"2021-07-15T08:44:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T08:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=209275"},"modified":"2021-07-15T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T08:44:57","slug":"you-cant-drink-oil-wasting-freshwater-for-fracking-and-drilling-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/15\/you-cant-drink-oil-wasting-freshwater-for-fracking-and-drilling-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Drink Oil: Wasting Freshwater for Fracking and Drilling in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new report, Food and Water Research reveals that\u00a0since Governor Newsom was elected,\u00a0from Fall 2018 to June 2021,\u00a0the oil and gas industry used\u00a01,804,566,792\u00a0gallons of freshwater,\u00a0nearly 2 billion gallons,\u00a0for drilling operations that could otherwise have supplied domestic systems. For a comparison of what that looks like, the nearly 2 billion gallons of water used to  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/15\/you-cant-drink-oil-wasting-freshwater-for-fracking-and-drilling-in-california\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/15\/you-cant-drink-oil-wasting-freshwater-for-fracking-and-drilling-in-california\/\">You Can\u2019t Drink Oil: Wasting Freshwater for Fracking and Drilling in California<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/15\/you-cant-drink-oil-wasting-freshwater-for-fracking-and-drilling-in-california\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new report, Food and Water Research reveals that\u00a0since Governor Newsom was elected,\u00a0from Fall 2018 to June 2021,\u00a0the oil and gas industry used\u00a01,804,566,792\u00a0gallons of freshwater,\u00a0nearly 2 billion gallons,\u00a0for drilling operations that could otherw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239628,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239404\/revisions\/239628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}