NEW MEXICO DRAINING AQUIFER to sell water to frackers

The bad news is that the terrible drought in New Mexico has led some farmers to sell their water to the oil and gas industry. The worse news is that many of them are actually pumping the water out of the aquifer to do so.
The worst news of all is that once the frackers get through tainting it with their witches’ brew of chemicals, that water often becomes unrecoverable — and then we have the possibility the used fracking water will end up contaminating even more of the groundwater.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/05/2395051/drought-new-mexico-farmers-drain-aquifer-fracking/