Does it take more water to frack an oil well or keep a golf course green?

Published August 19, 2014 12:18pm ET



Quick question: Which uses more water, growing vegetables or hydraulic fracturing — i.e. fracking — to produce oil and natural gas?

Ask that question of folks who work for the energy industry and odds are good they will quickly tell you agriculture consumes far more water than fracking.

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