168 hours or 7 days, up to WHO?

The World Health Organization's 7th goal is to "ensure environmental sustainability", and they declare their 7.C target to halve the number of people without access to sanitary and safe drinking water by 2015.

According to the EPA (the US Environmental Protection Agency) the concentrations of benzene, naphthalene, 1-methylnaphthalene, 2-methylnaphthalene, fluorenes, phenanthrenes, aromatics, ethylene glycol and methanol are in exceeding regulatory standards in the hydrolic fracturing process. Benzene, for example, is a known carcinogen, it can contaminate millions of gallons of water, and is more than 62 times more present than the allowed level in drinking water. Actually, the EPA also declares that fracking involves up to 5 millions gallons of water for a single natural gas well in a deep shale formation. How many people does that quench?

"No need to ask, he's a smooth operator"

Yet, Natural Gas drillers are not required to follow the EPA regulations. Because of some obscure reason I could still investigate, but I'm not sure it's really worth my time, since the oil and gas companies are not obliged to reveal any "proprietary information"... and therefore, don't have to disclose of the chemicals they use during hydraulic fracturing.

Sometimes I wonder if the egg or the chicken came first.

If you didn't get that... I meant to ask... did the EPA or the Oil and Gas company come first?

"If you know your history, than you would know where you're coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, WHO the hell..."

Hydrolic fracturing is exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act. The tax US payers are now subsidizing a 1.9 million study to review whether fracking should or should not become under the EPA's oversight.

So, once our water is undrinkable, that's what we'll have left. 168 hours.