(August 29, 2018, 7:00 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a study published Aug. 15, researchers at Duke University found that water use for hydraulic fracturing in major shale gas and oil production regions increased as much as 770 percent per well from 2011 to 2016, and wastewater volumes increased up to 1440 percent within the first year of production, which implies that future fracking operations will require larger volumes of water and larger wastewater volumes will be produced, which has “serious implication for local communities.”...