Does my drinking water contain water used in fracking?
No, the District of Columbia’s drinking water is purchased from the Washington Aqueduct, a unit of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and comes from the Potomac. Their intakes of water are located at Great Falls and Little Falls, where the water flows at a rate of several billion gallons per day. (This enormous flow dilutes any elements that may have entered the river upstream.) Drinking water is then treated at the Aqueduct for distribution to the District and other neighboring jurisdictions. The greater concern to drinking water supplies is the potential for the water used in fracking to enter groundwater-underground water sources such as aquifers-and wells.
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