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An oil-and-water mixture is pooled at a wastewater disposal site serving the oil and gas industry outside Eunice, New Mexico, on March 8, 2016. | New Mexico State Land Office via AP.

However, Governor Newsom is prioritizing expensive, risky alternative water supply and storage projects over better water stewardship through conserving our existing supplies and stopping the abusive ...

If you’re using water for oil and gas, it’s considered exempt,” said Ronald T. Green, a hydrologist who advises Wintergarden. So when fracking plans collide with drought, ...

There are five barrels of produced water for every barrel of oil. Texas oil companies are increasingly using this liquid, which is trapped in the rock where drilling and fracking occur, to frack more.

The oil and gas industry, whose activity in Colorado accounts for almost 4 percent of U.S. total crude oil output, uses about 11 billion gallons of fresh water annually in Colorado, according to ...

Land has subsided by as much as 11 inches since 2015 in a prime portion of the Permian Basin, as drillers extract huge amounts of oil and water, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of ...

As efforts to reuse produced water have intensified, questions have arisen over who owns that produced water: The driller who produced it or the landowner? The Texas Supreme Court recently issued a ...

ODESSA — Oil and gas companies are seeking legal shelter as Texas comes closer to using waste brine once considered too toxic for anything other than fracking to replenish Texas’ water shortages.