Mainland Resources, Inc.(fka MNLU)

[Ecomike]

Good point, that it may be part of the reason for the slowdown in fracking in Texas. Typically when you blend a drilling mud, or fracking fluid, or just soap and water to wash your car you want the cleanest, soft water you can find. Non potable water could have all sorts of issues, like radon, or heavy metals, or PCBs (think superfund contaminated), or bacteria, fecal coliform....and so on. Cleaning it up to make potable water would be needed, and that would create another waste water stream, needing discharge permits.......and so on. Contaminates could cause problems with the well, the fracking, well logging (I think?). The other problem is that not all non potable water is the same, there is no spec, or limits on contaminates. So each new water source would be one huge expensive experiment in the eyes of nervous engineers!!

Non-potable water is like a box-a-chocolates, you never know what your gonna get!