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Ogallala Aquifer
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Ogallala Aquifer

The largest source of groundwater in the USA, stretching from southern South Dakota to northwestern Texas. It contains an estimated 4 trillion tonnes of water. The overexploitation of this water resource resulted in the loss of more than 18% of the irrigated farmland of Oklahoma and Texas in the period 1940–90.



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9 million people were supplied by ground water from the High Plains aquifer with total public-supply withdrawals of 315 million gallons per day.
Rethinking green: there are legitimate environmental problems. These ... by Behreandt, Dennis / The New American
And in the United States the overpumping of the vast High Plains aquifer has become a matter of enormous agricultural concern.
Outgrowing the Earth by Huebner, Al / The Humanist
In substantial portions of the High Plains aquifer, which underlies a 450,000-square-kilometer area that stretches from South Dakota to the Texas Panhandle, more than half of the subterranean moisture has been pumped out.
Crisis on tap? Pollution and burgeoning populations stress earth's ... by Perkins, Sid / Science News
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