{{#badges: WaterEnergy}}<div style="font-size:120%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000000;">'''Welcome to the water initiative of the Center for Media and Democracy,''' which includes a special focus on the threats to our rivers, watersheds, and fresh water supplies from drilling for methane gas, which is often called "natural gas," including the ongoing efforts by oil and gas companies to "drill, baby, drill for methane "--without adequate protections--in the [[Marcellus Shale]] deposits in region of the Northeastern U.S.</div>