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   you should look at this piece of information   
    For the last few years, a   
   small group of farmers and landowners scattered across this rural Wyoming   
   basin have complained that their water wells have been contaminated with   
   chemicals from a controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic   
   fracturing, or fracking.   
    A draft report by the Environmental Protection   
   Agency, issued in December, appeared to confirm their concerns, linking   
   chemicals in local groundwater to gas drilling.   
    “These are people that had   
   good water,” said John Fenton, a barrel-chested farmer and chairman of the   
   Pavillion Area Concerned Citizens group. “And it changed when there was this   
   rush to come in here and develop the area when they didn’t understand the   
   geology.”   
    Renny MacKay, a spokesman for Mr. Mead, said the governor was   
   committed to figuring out a long-term fix for about 20 homes whose water was   
   found to contain contaminants while the source of the pollution is studied.   
      
    A draft report by the Environmental Protection Agency, issued in December,   
   appeared to confirm their concerns, linking chemicals in local groundwater to   
    gas drilling.   
    For the last few years, a small group of farmers and   
   landowners scattered across this rural Wyoming basin have complained that   
   their water wells have been contaminated with chemicals from a controversial   
   drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.   
    In the   
   meantime, the state has offered to provide cisterns for local residents,   
   using $750,000 allocated by the Wyoming Legislature this year. Under the   
   plan, people here would still have to pay a fee to have their water hauled   
   from the nearby community of Pavillion, at a cost that could run more than   
   $150 per month.   
    “Until there is a peer-reviewed study and a good scientific   
    basis that indicates that the issues related to water are related to our   
   operations, that is not something we are ready to address,” said Doug Hock,   
   an Encana spokesman.   
      
   However, This article is uncomplete:   
    Mr. Hock said it should have come as no   
   surprise that the E.P.A.’s two monitoring wells showed high levels of methane   
    and benzene because they were drilled deep into a natural gas field.   
    But   
   here on the front lines of the battle over fracking, which has become an   
   increasingly popular technique to extract previously unobtainable reserves of   
    oil and gas, no conclusion is yet definitive.   
    “I’d like to have the   
   industry held accountable for once,” said Jeff Locker, a hay and barley   
   farmer who said that his well water had gone bad around the mid-’90s and that   
    the contaminants had contributed to his wife’s neuropathy. “We’ve got   
   scientific proof. And they’re still turning their back on us. They expect us   
   to pay between $100 and $200 for something we didn’t cause. It gets under my   
   skin.”   
    Renny MacKay, a spokesman for Mr. Mead, said the governor was   
   committed to figuring out a long-term fix for about 20 homes whose water was   
   found to contain contaminants while the source of the pollution is studied.   
      
    “Until there is a peer-reviewed study and a good scientific basis that   
   indicates that the issues related to water are related to our operations,   
   that is not something we are ready to address,” said Doug Hock, an Encana   
   spokesman.   
    “Until there is a peer-reviewed study and a good scientific   
   basis that indicates that the issues related to water are related to our   
   operations, that is not something we are ready to address,” said Doug Hock,   
   an Encana spokesman.   
    After an outcry from Wyoming’s governor, Matt Mead,   
   and the energy industry that the federal report was premature and   
   inconclusive, more testing was conducted by the United States Geological   
   Survey and is being processed. The E.P.A. is also in the midst of collecting   
   additional water samples for study.   
    “I’d like to have the industry held   
   accountable for once,” said Jeff Locker, a hay and barley farmer who said   
   that his well water had gone bad around the mid-’90s and that the   
   contaminants had contributed to his wife’s neuropathy. “We’ve got scientific   
   proof. And they’re still turning their back on us. They expect us to pay   
   between $100 and $200 for something we didn’t cause. It gets under my skin.”   
      
    A draft report by the Environmental Protection Agency, issued in December,   
   appeared to confirm their concerns, linking chemicals in local groundwater to   
    gas drilling.   
    But here on the front lines of the battle over fracking,   
   which has become an increasingly popular technique to extract previously   
   unobtainable reserves of oil and gas, no conclusion is yet definitive.   
    In   
   the meantime, the state has offered to provide cisterns for local residents,   
   using $750,000 allocated by the Wyoming Legislature this year. Under the   
   plan, people here would still have to pay a fee to have their water hauled   
   from the nearby community of Pavillion, at a cost that could run more than   
   $150 per month.   
    But some locals say the draft report’s analysis of water   
   samples, which identified synthetic chemicals consistent with natural gas   
   drilling and hydraulic fracturing fluids, is proof of what they suspected for   
    years.   
    Encana has maintained that water in the area is naturally poor and   
   that its operations did not cause the problems — fracking had also occurred   
   before the company purchased the gas field. Moreover, the energy industry has   
    steadfastly pointed out that there has never been any conclusive link   
   between fracking and water contamination.   
    But here on the front lines of   
   the battle over fracking, which has become an increasingly popular technique   
   to extract previously unobtainable reserves of oil and gas, no conclusion is   
   yet definitive.   
      
   Before thinking about the water , you should look at this link h   
   tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_quality   
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