Chasing the rabbits of public opinion: President of ANGA encourages industry to continue educating the public on hydraulic fracturing

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One summer when I was a child I spent my days riding with my grandfather on his tractor as he worked in his cotton fields. To stop my steady stream of "but whys?," he would turn me loose to catch the hundreds of jackrabbits that called the fields home. For every one that I caught, he would pay me US $5. With empty pockets and a dusty mouth, I would go with him to the coffee shop for lunch. It was there that I first heard the holy trinity of Texas farmer "shop talk": football, cotton futures, and chances of rain. As summer approaches, the need for rain continues to be strong across most of the High Plains and southwestern US. Exceptional drought has placed extreme pressures on state and local water management plans. And in those drought-stricken areas that have rigs working night and day, it is easy to single out the industry as being a major consumer of water. People have questions about how, much water is being used and why so much is needed by the industry to frac a well.