Consider this scenario: You go to a flea market,
and spot an electric motor that looks similar to the one on the wash-down pump
in your barn that is starting to make noise.
The Utica Shale contains about 38 trillion cubic
feet (TCF) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas (at the mean
estimate) according to the first assessment of this continuous (unconventional)
natural gas accumulation by the U. S. Geological Survey.
In the early 1920s, California’s agriculture industry was booming, and as the demand for the Golden State’s homegrown products increased, growers had to expand their operations, which, in turn, meant an increased demand for the state’s most valuable resource – water.