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you should look at this piece of information
 For the last few years, a 
small group of farmers and landowners scattered across this rural Wyoming 
basin have complained that their water wells have been contaminated with 
chemicals from a controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic 
fracturing, or fracking.
 A draft report by the Environmental Protection 
Agency, issued in December, appeared to confirm their concerns, linking 
chemicals in local groundwater to gas drilling.
 �These are people that had 
good water,� said John Fenton, a barrel-chested farmer and chairman of the 
Pavillion Area Concerned Citizens group. �And it changed when there was this 
rush to come in here and develop the area when they didn�t understand the 
geology.�
 Renny MacKay, a spokesman for Mr. Mead, said the governor was 
committed to figuring out a long-term fix for about 20 homes whose water was 
found to contain contaminants while the source of the pollution is studied.

 A draft report by the Environmental Protection Agency, issued in December, 
appeared to confirm their concerns, linking chemicals in local groundwater to
 gas drilling.
 For the last few years, a small group of farmers and 
landowners scattered across this rural Wyoming basin have complained that 
their water wells have been contaminated with chemicals from a controversial 
drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
 In the 
meantime, the state has offered to provide cisterns for local residents, 
using $750,000 allocated by the Wyoming Legislature this year. Under the 
plan, people here would still have to pay a fee to have their water hauled 
from the nearby community of Pavillion, at a cost that could run more than 
$150 per month.
 �Until there is a peer-reviewed study and a good scientific
 basis that indicates that the issues related to water are related to our 
operations, that is not something we are ready to address,� said Doug Hock, 
an Encana spokesman.
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However, This article is uncomplete:
 Mr. Hock said it should have come as no 
surprise that the E.P.A.�s two monitoring wells showed high levels of methane
 and benzene because they were drilled deep into a natural gas field.
 But 
here on the front lines of the battle over fracking, which has become an 
increasingly popular technique to extract previously unobtainable reserves of
 oil and gas, no conclusion is yet definitive.
 �I�d like to have the 
industry held accountable for once,� said Jeff Locker, a hay and barley 
farmer who said that his well water had gone bad around the mid-�90s and that
 the contaminants had contributed to his wife�s neuropathy. �We�ve got 
scientific proof. And they�re still turning their back on us. They expect us 
to pay between $100 and $200 for something we didn�t cause. It gets under my 
skin.�
 Renny MacKay, a spokesman for Mr. Mead, said the governor was 
committed to figuring out a long-term fix for about 20 homes whose water was 
found to contain contaminants while the source of the pollution is studied.

 �Until there is a peer-reviewed study and a good scientific basis that 
indicates that the issues related to water are related to our operations, 
that is not something we are ready to address,� said Doug Hock, an Encana 
spokesman.
 �Until there is a peer-reviewed study and a good scientific 
basis that indicates that the issues related to water are related to our 
operations, that is not something we are ready to address,� said Doug Hock, 
an Encana spokesman.
 After an outcry from Wyoming�s governor, Matt Mead, 
and the energy industry that the federal report was premature and 
inconclusive, more testing was conducted by the United States Geological 
Survey and is being processed. The E.P.A. is also in the midst of collecting 
additional water samples for study.
 �I�d like to have the industry held 
accountable for once,� said Jeff Locker, a hay and barley farmer who said 
that his well water had gone bad around the mid-�90s and that the 
contaminants had contributed to his wife�s neuropathy. �We�ve got scientific 
proof. And they�re still turning their back on us. They expect us to pay 
between $100 and $200 for something we didn�t cause. It gets under my skin.�


 A draft report by the Environmental Protection Agency, issued in December, 
appeared to confirm their concerns, linking chemicals in local groundwater to
 gas drilling.
 But here on the front lines of the battle over fracking, 
which has become an increasingly popular technique to extract previously 
unobtainable reserves of oil and gas, no conclusion is yet definitive.
 In 
the meantime, the state has offered to provide cisterns for local residents, 
using $750,000 allocated by the Wyoming Legislature this year. Under the 
plan, people here would still have to pay a fee to have their water hauled 
from the nearby community of Pavillion, at a cost that could run more than 
$150 per month.
 But some locals say the draft report�s analysis of water 
samples, which identified synthetic chemicals consistent with natural gas 
drilling and hydraulic fracturing fluids, is proof of what they suspected for
 years.
 Encana has maintained that water in the area is naturally poor and 
that its operations did not cause the problems � fracking had also occurred 
before the company purchased the gas field. Moreover, the energy industry has
 steadfastly pointed out that there has never been any conclusive link 
between fracking and water contamination.
 But here on the front lines of 
the battle over fracking, which has become an increasingly popular technique 
to extract previously unobtainable reserves of oil and gas, no conclusion is 
yet definitive.

Before thinking about the water , you should look at this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_quality
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