Could excess water from oil and gas operations help farmers and reduce seismicity? Dr. Andrea Blaine and her student researchers from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of Mines aim to answer that question. Here is an excerpt from Science Daily: "Certainly as you get toward the arid West people get panicky about running out of water," says Andrea Blaine of the Colorado School of Mines. Two of her students will be presenting research projects in Colorado that look into the safety and feasibility of using excess produced water for growing crops. "One of my ....