Energy companies use billions of liters of the province's surface water for fracking natural gas, and only paid slightly more than a dollar per million liters

Energy companies use billions of liters of the province's surface water for fracking natural gas, and only paid slightly more than a dollar per million liters That's on top of what the bottling companies use (hundreds of million liters for bottlers) for a few dollars. This pricing does not look like water is a sparse commodity and so much on the difference it makes not to water your lawn.