There has always been a suspicion that the spike in cancers near fracking towns have something to do with the natural gas extraction happening closeby. When it comes down to a matter of life and death, we should not be slowly looking into it to prove the science we have already been given.

“Water, water everywhere,” goes the old rhyme. And while 71 percent of the Earth is water, this important resource is threatened by harmful practices that can contaminate or drastically drain the world’s...