The first article you linked to is absolutely, mind-boggingly insane. Just one of the absurd quotes from it: Fears hit especially hard in the state’s west

The first article you linked to is absolutely, mind-boggingly insane. Just one of the absurd quotes from it: Fears hit especially hard in the state’s western desert and plains, where fracking is booming. Almost 80% of this vast region’s documented water demand is met by a complex collection of aquifers — colossal, subterranean formations that filled up over millions of years. “We’re just planning to deplete it. It’s not like we’re conserving it. We’re just making the crash landing slow and somewhat tolerable,” said Jeff Bennett, a hydrogeologist in the West Texas town of Alpine who worked for 15 years for the National Park Service nearby. end. Such a fate awaits the Ogallala Aquifer, the nation’s largest underground body of water, which swoops into West Texas from the north, and for which the Texas Water Development Board calls “managed depletion” its “management strategy.” I mean.. What? But it gets better: Some of the water is reused in fracking, but the large majority is pumped underground and discarded. Planners have considered treating it to irrigate crops instead, which California does with wastewater that is much less salty and doesn’t include fracking fluids. They have so much heavily polluted, toxic water they don't what to do with that they want to pump it in our food supplies. They are not content enough of polluting the water supplies for the coming centuries, they also want to make sure that food-growing land is unfit for human use as well. Very, very impressive.