This works by injecting water into a reaction chamber, where it achieves plasma state through a high-intensity electrical field.

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Fracking involves injecting water, sand and some chemicals deep into the earth to crack shale rock, which frees oil and gas.

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In the latest case, examples of wrongdoing included suspects using a hydrogen peroxide solution to process chicken claws or injecting water into meat to increase its weight.

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Rather, as a consequence of injecting water and sand into the shale formation to crack the rocks so gas and oil will flow, massive amounts of waste water comes back to the surface with significant amounts of contaminants as a result of leaching out salt, heavy metals and trace amounts of radioactive materials from the rock formation itself.

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King failed to obtain a permit from Idaho officials before injecting the water.

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This year he completed what is believed to be the first ever fracture stimulation procedure in Turkey: injecting a mixture of water and sand at high pressure down the wells to break up rock and release gas.

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Fracking is a drilling process that frees gas from deep rock deposits by injecting wells with chemical-laced water at high pressure.

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Other solutions are more complex, but still cheap, such as injecting a sugary mixture into a water supply contaminated by hexavalent chromium to make it less toxic and less mobile underground.

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The bans stem from local residents' concerns about potential adverse impacts if the state lifts its 5-year-old moratorium on gas drilling using high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which frees gas from deep shale deposits by injecting wells with chemical-laced water at high pressure.

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