Presumably, not due to fracking since most fracking took place since President Obama took office and few are even suspected of contaminating the water supply. We have Superfund sites all over the country from wood treatment, dumping of toxic wastes on the ground or leaking tanks (and the recent massive release of wastes due to an EPA official’s boo-boo).

Some soils are naturally dangerous due to native rocks with arsenic, lead, mercury, uranium and suchlike.

And there are states which use surface waters as both water supply and wastewater disposal. The water in New Orleans has already gone into and out of several sewage systems ere it goes into their babies’ formula. (Yummy!)

David for recycling

When fracking is done, it is not done in the fresh water strata but in the hydrocarbon bearing strata, often several miles down and separated from fresh water by those several miles of impermeable rock. (If they weren’t impermeable, the hydrocarbons would have leaked out long ago, like they are doing at the Labrea Tar Pits.)

It probably has been done in shallower strata and reached the surface, but that doesn’t mean it has to.

And sometimes people blame fracking for things which were already that way. Louis L’Amour mentioned in one of his westerns that there were canyons with slow natural gas leaks which would occasionally build up and catch fire briefly.

Today, we would probably blame fracking.

David for discernment

More importantly, unnecessary.
Limestone is already fractured.

David for geology

The idea is that energy produced domestically is energy we didn’t have to get from the Middle East and whose supply and distribution don’t have to be protected in order to keep the lights on in the schools and hospitals and the ambulances, fire trucks and police cars able to move.

Fracking increases domestic production and we can ignore Middle East wars.

David for defunding terrorists