Wastewater recycling is growing within the natural gas industry. This means that well operators use
flowback fluid from one Marcellus well to hydraulically fracture another well. From June 2008 to June 2011,
the Susquehanna River Basin Commission reports that drillers reused 14.5% of the water withdrawn for
Marcellus wells: 311 million gallons of water were recycled of the 2.14 billion withdrawn from the Susquehanna River Basin