Re: “Three industries that work hard to be good neighbors,” Nov. 9 Krista Kafer column.

Missing from Krista Kafer’s paean to the hydraulic fracturing facility she visited was any mention of the tremendous amount of water used to create cracks in the deep strata to free the oil and gas, nor what, if any, use was made of the ensuing wastewater. Until fracking is water-neutral, or water use is replaced with a more abundant resource, fracking’s products will not make our lives “healthier and better,” to use Kafer’s words.

Gene Drumm, Denver

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