Turbidity current

Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the earth’s surface at high pressures in order to fracture the clastic sedimentary rock or shale rock surface. Fracturing the shale rock releases the natural gas, petroleum, or water that could be trapped inside these underground natural reservoirs. The wells are drilled vertically into the earth’s surface for hundreds or thousands of feet and include horizontal or directional extensions to allow…

Introduction Water is known to many as the ‘elixir of life’ and is essential to the very existence of human life on Earth (Saunders, n.d.). It is thus imperative that water is made available to humans in an acceptable quantity and quality (Mohanty, 2006) at any given time. Visually, this may seem easy enough to achieve given water is present all around us in various forms and mediums (eg. rainwater). However, the crux of this problem lies in the fact that humans can only consume freshwater. Up…