While residents are asked to conserve water and fear for the future of the Beaver Run Reservoir, MAWC has been selling hundreds of millions of gallons of water to oil and gas companies.

Corporations such as CNX and Olympus operate over 10 well pads surrounding the Beaver Run Reservoir, which each consume millions of gallons of water. Matthew Junker from MAWC justified these sales by emailing a resident: "We sold 129 million gallons to the gas companies from the reservoir. To put that in further perspective, over two small rains in November of 1.7 inches deposited 246 million gallons."

However, droughts have been increasingly common in our area, and now that water is not being replenished fast enough. If you would like to stay informed and up to date with how to stop MAWC from selling our water, please sign up below.

Water belongs to the people!