A virus could help save billions of gallons of wastewater produced by fracking

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Source: The University of Texas at El Paso

A new study details how bacteriophages, viruses that are often highly specific and lethal to a single species of bacteria, can be used as a rapid and cost-effective method to treat produced water on an industrial scale. 

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