Fracking does mess up ground water, but with hydrocarbons that are already there and at a depth way below the aquifer levels of well or drinking water. So that doesn't effect what we drink.
Otherwise North Dakota and parts of Canada would already be dependent on imported drinking water. That may be the case, but I have not heard of it.
I don't know what to think of a comparison to Taylor's kid. On the one hand, he was a genius, but on the other he was totally indifferent to other people. Maybe the comparison is more apt than I know!
The documentary Gasland already proved that fracking is causing tap water in some cases to be combustible.
