PRI: Fracking often gets blamed for water problems, but it's not a clear cut case
A good number of people in Pennsylvania no longer have drinkable well water.
Among them is John Fair, who lives north of Pittsburgh in Butler County. He has to get his drinking water through a “water drive” organized by neighbors in his community, called the Woodlands.
Some Woodlands residents say they’ve had problems with their well water in the past. Sometimes it smelled bad or became dirty after rainstorms. But they say one particular thing made it worse: hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a controversial technique for harvesting natural gas.