For the environment this means far less air emissions, far less water usage and disposal needs, and far less land impacted to produce a similar amount of oil and natural gas.
The practice caught on elsewhere, helping the farmers of the basin to get through the recent long drought using far less water than before yet with no reduction in output.
There are far fewer trees and water obstacles, but the courses are far more open to the elements.
Such an alteration would be needed to allow freshwater fish eggs to survive and travel far in salt water.
Most fracking today occurs 10, 000 feet deep or more, far below drinking water wells, which are normally less than 500 feet.
Pakdin lives in a tree-shaded hut not far from the water's edge.
The scientists said the project would provide information on the location and behaviour of basking sharks during the summer, and also track how far into deeper water they go in winter.
He paddled out on his board to a buoy about 150 yards offshore, far enough to be in deep water, but not so far that he could be taken by a shark.
There, the shortage of water mattered far more to most voters than the latest call-centre.
So, by month end, Symbian phones are dead in the water as far as Twitter is concerned.
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Eventually, the Stuart Highway bursts far enough north to find water, but swimming is not advisable.
The sands yielding oil and gas discoveries are universally similar from onshore Louisiana to far offshore in the deep water.
Without the pot, we never would have roamed far from sources of fresh water, and wouldn't be able to preserve food to get through famines and harsh weather.
So in a very real sense the Danes are testing the water for two far bigger economies, and also providing the first real test of public feeling towards the new currency.
In an emailed statement, the Atlanta-based company noted that soft drinks remain a far larger category than bottled water and that it sees "upside" for sodas over the next several years.
And even though the town sits south of Rome on a part of the island that gets blisteringly hot in August (when we visited) the sea air and the proximity of the water are never far away.
It pulls less hard on the Earth, but even less hard on the water on the far side, so a watery bulge forms on the far side as well -- a high tide roughly 12 hours out of synch.
So far as the supply of water for domestic purposes is concerned, there is plenty to go around: domestic uses such as drinking, cooking and cleaning make relatively tiny demands on available supplies, and are generally given first call in any case.
Indians point out, too, that Pakistan enjoys a rare guarantee: the Indus Water Treaty, struck in 1960 by far-sighted engineers and diplomats who saw that after the partition of land, water had to be shared out too.
Here I was suspended in the water with Meka not far behind me.
Instead, he is using these preliminary stages of the debate to test the water and see how far he can push things.
However water has, so far, rarely been at the roots of the tensions, but can indeed be an exacerbating factor where social and political tensions already exist.
Jetties Beach, just north of town, was the family crowd pleaser with a far expanse of warm, shallow water, a decent concession stand and -- while we were there -- seal sightings.
Not, in this case, whisky - although we may take for granted that he is well aware of the intrinsic worth of the water of life as far as the Scottish economy is concerned.
While Sandy visited devastation on the East Coast, principally New Jersey and New York, it created wind gusts as far west as Wisconsin and as far north as Canada and caused water levels to rise from Florida to Maine, the center found.
Insurers are thinking twice about covering people who live far from a fire station or a water source.
"Successful project completions in the key water and health sectors fell far short of hopes, " the report said.
He has applied far more money and know-how to issues far less important than the shortage of water.
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