Energy-Water Nexus Data Dump 1: Fracking

How much water does it take to frac an oil well?

A wild horse and fracking operation in the Greater Chaco Region of Northwest New Mexico, 2017. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

A few weeks ago a New Mexico source emailed to let me know that a handful of oil and gas wells were being “completed,” or hydraulically fractured, along the shores of Navajo Lake, which straddles the Colorado-New Mexico line. That, …