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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (70038)	5/15/2016 6:01:46 PM
From: Gary Mohilner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86350

Bob, I'll openly admit not being an expert, but I believe I'm someone with my eyes open. When I read of areas that never had earthquakes until they began fracking, it doesn't take much imagination to figure the cause. Likewise when I read about groundwater contaminated with the same chemicals that were supposed to be put in the ground far deeper then the wells used for drinking it doesn't take much imagination to recognize that paths exist between the deeper sites and the shallower ones. I frankly think other solutions could be found, rather than dumping the waste deep in the earth. I wonder if units similar to the R-O units that desalinate water couldn't be employed. Even if such units couldn't get the water pure enough to drink, perhaps they could render them adequate for use in agriculture. Perhaps something useful could even be found for the contaminants, if not, at least it would be a much smaller volume to deal with the proper disposal of. I'm not an expert, don't pretend to be, but on many occasions my free wheeling type of thinking resulted in solutions to problems that the experts simply didn't think about. I live just a few miles from the Hyperion Treatment Plant in L.A. where much of the wastewater in L.A. is processed. I had the opportunity to tour the plant a few years ago, as you might guess, it was a smelly tour. The facts however were that their discharge into the ocean was really quite pure. If they in fact wished to process it slightly more, it could be drinkable, or at least used for watering. While we can't accept the idea of drinking our wastewater, I believe our astronauts in the space station are doing it routinely. Friends of mine with R-O units on their boats spend many months at Catalina Island without ever needing water from shore. The problem with water produced by R-O units is that it's so pure you need to add minerals if you want it to taste like normal drinking water. I for one don't believe that anyone needs to believe the scientists wrt global warming or other similar topics, you simply need to open your eyes and ask, how is it that all these things are happening. I'm speaking of the number and severity of storms, increasing average air temperatures worldwide, melting ice caps, disappearing glacier fields, etc. Don't want to believe the scientists, don't want to believe your eyes, congratulations, you're a died in the wool Republican. Gary