A New Mexico county's fracking ban is all about the water

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 22:00 in Health & Medicine

In acting to protect what's important to them, the 5,000 residents of poor Mora County make it the nation's first to ban hydraulic fracturing for oil.OCATE, N.M. — Sitting in the tidy living room of the home they built themselves, Sandra and Roger Alcon inventory what they see as the bounty of their lives: freedom, family, community, land, animals … and water.

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