This is the second post in a three part series which discusses water rights & regulation in the Utica and Marcellus Shale regions. The first post discussed how oil & gas companies select water resources to supply their drilling activities.  The post also reviewed two different strategies employed by companies when accessing water resources:

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Oil & gas development in Ohio has reinvigorated an area of law- water rights- that had laid mostly dormant for more than a century.  The need for fresh water for fracking has resulted in large investments in water infrastructure and competition among companies to secure access to prime sources of fresh water. 

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