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155 ”2.4 billion people will lack access to improved sanitation facilities”

Ibid.

156 ill each year due to their drinking water, and tens of thousands die

Jane Qiu, ”China to Spend Billions Cleaning Up Groundwater,” Science, November 2011, p. 745.

157 growing craze for deep shale gas

Chesapeake Energy, ”Water Use in Deep Shale Gas Exploration,” 2012, /Media/Educational-Library/Fact-Sheets/Corporate/Water_Use_Fact_Sheet.pdf; Jack Healy, ”Struggle for Water in Colorado with Rise in Fracking,” New York Times, September 5, 2012.

158 supplies in regions that were already experiencing shortages

Chesapeake Energy, ”Water Use in Deep Shale Gas Exploration”; Healy, ”Struggle for Water in Colorado with Rise in Fracking.”

159 water for energy production is projected to grow

International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2012 (Paris: International Energy Agency, 2012).

160 opening new fissures and modifying underground flow patterns

Abrahm l.u.s.tgarten, ”Are Fracking Wastewater Wells Poisoning the Ground beneath Our Feet?,” Scientific American, June 21, 2012.

161 leaked waste upward into regions containing drinking water aquifers

Ibid.

162 one percent represented by all of the surface freshwater

”Groundwater Depletion Rate Accelerating Worldwide,” ScienceDaily, September 23, 2010, /releases/2010/09/100923142503.htm.

163 rate of shrinkage in groundwater aquifers has doubled