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[Art2004]

Bromine and bromides fron Wikepedia

APPARENTLY THE BROMIDES OR BROMINE IN THE DRINKING WATER DOES COME FROM ITS USE IN WELL DRILLING FLUIDS.

At high temperatures, organobromine compounds are easily converted to free bromine atoms, a process which acts to terminate free radical chemical chain reactions. This makes such compounds useful fire retardants and this is bromine's primary industrial use, consuming more than half of world production of the element. The same property allows volatile organobromine compounds, under the action of sunlight, to form free bromine atoms in the atmosphere which are highly effective in ozone depletion. This unwanted side-effect has caused many common volatile brominated organics like methyl bromide, a pesticide that was formerly a large industrial bromine consumer, to be abandoned.

*Remaining uses of bromine compounds are in well-drilling fluids,*

as an intermediate in manufacture of organic chemicals, and in film photography

[akstkpkr2]

I'm not an expert on bromine but a quick google search brought me to several articles that said bromine is introduced into the frac fluid as a biocide. Something the Ecos-Frac process eliminates the need for.

[Ecomike]

I think I just answered this. And no it does not reduce bromides if I understand what you mean by "reduce"??????