New York Drinking Water

Kill the Drill is a campaign to voice opposition to any hydraulic fracturing in the city's upstate watershed, which supplies 90 percent of New York City's drinking water.

New York State regulators trail everybody else in protecting New York City's drinking water from natural gas drilling, despite the fact that they alone have the authority to do so.

In New York and across the country, hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) is used to access underground natural gas deposits. The prospects for pollution and contamination of our water supply, in an effort to get to the gas, are real and dangerous.