The Dangers of Fracking Fracking is quickly becoming a hotly debated topic in our society today. The practice involves injecting fluid into the ground to fracture the rock to release natural gas. It seems like it would be a safe way to exploit the fuels present on the earth's surface, but in reality it is a danger to our environment. Due to the dangers of fracking, what little fresh water remains on earth is becoming contaminated. It also releases toxins into the air creating contaminated air and acid rain. Due to the numerous health and environmental dangers of fracking, fracking should be stopped immediately to help prevent further global health problems in the future. The fracking process is very simple. About 800 liters of water are used as the base of what is called fracking fluid. Along with this, sand and 600 toxic chemicals are used to create the fluid. The fluid is then transported from a production facility to the site. It is then injected at high pressure into the ground through dill pipes. The fluid contains chemicals that prevent these pipes from rusting over time. The fluid then reaches a well where it causes nearby shale rock to fracture. This releases all the fuel trapped in the rocks. Gravity and pressure are then used to force the fluid out of the tubes towards the surface. The fluid is then taken and allowed to evaporate in large holes. This causes the release of chemicals and also leaks into groundwater (dangers of fracking). One of the major natural resources used in fracking is water. On average, one to eight million liters of water are used during a fracturing job. There are also approximately 500,000 active fracture sites worldwide, and each site can be fractured approximately 18 times. This means that approximately 72 trillion... half paper... kings have been fed into shale fracking. This is where the fuel is fractured from harder surfaces, causing further effects on the earth. They allow for close fracking of gas, which is not dangerous (Inside Climate News). Both forms of fracking have many concerned about what the country's future will be. No matter how you look at the effects of fracking, the gain is greater than the gain. It could help the country economically, providing many jobs and being able to produce our fuels. We would save a lot of money, but we would waste our environment. The effects of the chemicals used would slowly kill us. They would remain in our aquifers and we would consume them without even knowing it. Our water sources would become so contaminated that we would not be able to consume it. If we don't stop fracturing now, we will only ask for a dangerous future.