Tell the USDA to Ban the Use of Fracking Water on Crops!

Reports have found that some farmers in California are using recycled fracking water to irrigate their crops--sometimes organic crops. In hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” millions of gallons of water, sand, and hundreds of different chemicals are injected, under high pressure, into a well.

Even after the fracking fluid has been treated following state guidelines, it has been found to contain oil, acetone, and methylene chloride, a powerful solvent that is classified as a potential carcinogen. There are other chemicals that fracking companies don’t disclose to the public. If we don’t know which chemicals to test for, any number of the hundreds of chemicals used in fracking could be present in this water—especially since many chemicals can’t be removed unless reverse osmosis filtration is used.

Urge Congress and the USDA to ban the use of fracking water to grow crops, especially organic crops.

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Please Ban the Use of Fracking Water on Crops!

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I was distressed to learn that some farmers in California, in the face of a four-year-long drought, are using recycled fracking water to irrigate their crops. As you know, in hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," millions of gallons of water, sand, and hundreds of different chemicals are injected, under high pressure, into a well.

Even after the fracking fluid has been treated following state guidelines, it has been found to contain oil, acetone, and methylene chloride, a powerful solvent that is classified as a potential carcinogen. There are other chemicals that the fracking companies don't disclose to the public. If we don't know which chemicals to test for, any number of the hundreds of chemicals used in fracking could be present in this water -- especially since many chemicals can't be removed unless reverse osmosis filtration is used.

We don't know the full extent of the health implications of this use of oil and gas wastewater on crops because oil companies do not disclose all of the chemicals they use in their operations. One report found that oil companies withheld the identity of 40% of the chemicals they use because they were "trade secrets." For a third of the chemicals we do know are used by oil companies, acute toxicity information is unknown. This is rolling the dice with our health.

California produces nearly half of all US-grown fruits, nuts, and vegetables.  As consumers, we have a right to safe food. The American public should not be used as guinea pigs to save money for oil-drilling companies.

I urge you to ban the use of fracking water to grow crops.

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