No doubt Palin would say it's okay to live in Pennsylvania and drink tainted water. What do you think if you?

It's not surprising considering it's the state of Three Mile Island fame. What you refer to are called disposal wells. In fact it's big business in the oil patch to be a company that collects and disposes of the waste water, which is far more briny than that which is in the Dead Sea. I know of one fella in Oklahoma who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in building waste water disposal tanks, and they were filled to capacity in a matter of days. I have traveled the back roads of Oklahoma and come upon tanker trucks that were intentionally spilling waste water as it drove along. Such waste soon finds it's way into the aquifers from which people get their drinking water. The city of Lindsay, Oklahoma had to spend millions of dollars to tap into an aquifer several miles away because a company did not have it's disposal well plugged properly and it leaked down into the water supply zone. It's a problem that has existed as long as there has been oil production in America.