史蒂夫·科菲 (Steve Coffee) 觉得讽刺的是，一个如此依赖水力压裂的行业才刚刚开始给予水管理应有的关注。

“很少有石油和天然气公司拥有水务团队，甚至水务人员，”生产水协会主席科菲说。“如果没有人或小团队负责某件事，管理起来并不困难。”

据美国石油学会称，平均每口水力压裂井要使用约 400 万加仑的水，这带来了挑战。随着该行业的发展，为单口井提供和处理数百万加仑水所需的基础设施和物流（通常位于供水稀缺的地区）变得越来越复杂。与此同时，公众越来越担心供水和污染，以及回注水与地震活动之间可能存在的联系。

Steve Coffee finds it ironic that an industry so reliant on hydraulic fracturing is just beginning to give water management the attention it deserves.

“Very few oil and gas companies have a water team or even a water person,” said Coffee, president of the Produced Water Society. “It’s hard to manage something if you don’t even have a person or small team responsible for it.”

According to API, the average fracking job uses about 4 million gallons of water per well, and that poses challenges. As the industry has grown, the infrastructure and logistics necessary to provide and dispose of millions of gallons of water for a single well—often in areas where supplies are scarce—have become more and more complicated. At the same time, the public is becoming more concerned about water supply and pollution, and the possible connection between reinjected water and seismic activity.