Water pipe is layed along the highway outside of Williston, North Dakota. The demand for water is high with oil and fracking interests in the Bakken formation as well as the exponential population growth. The oil boom is redrawing North Dakota's landscape, however, the economic prosperity has exacerbated problems in housing, infrastructure and traffic. ..Known for the beauty of its great plains, North Dakota has long been the least populated state in the country. Because of the Bakken oil boom, everyday, mostly men, pour in from across the nation looking for work. The small town of Williston has exploded as a result. Ten years ago Williston, North Dakota was a quiet agricultural town with a population around 12,000. In a decade the population has more than doubled to over 30,000. More than half of Williston's residents now work in oil-related jobs and the city's unemployment rate is at 1 percent, which is the lowest in the U.S...
{}