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From the Springer link:

Third, academic research over the last four years suggests that water quality concerns associated with fracking may be more serious than water quantity concerns. The literature has identified more definitive links between shale gas development and impacts on surface water quality, and emerging research is consistent with groundwater quality impacts. The rapid pace of expansion in the industry suggests that new research aimed at quantifying water quality impacts, characterizing their pathways, and assessing options (for industry and/or policymakers) for their mitigation will have high value
Are these peer reviewed?

Was this article peer reviewed as well?

What were the methodologies?

What are the levels in these water contaminations? How did they isolate the contaminations so as to trace them back to drilling and fracking shale gas?