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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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The Ogallala Aquifer, in the central Midwestern United States, was deposited about 10 million years ago and enables the High Plains to be the leading irrigation area in the Western Hemisphere.
Let them come to the water: the scarcity of our most precious ... by Long-Garcia, J.D. / U.S. Catholic
Behind the scenes, Pickens is buying up water rights all over the Texas panhandle in order to tap into the Ogallala Aquifer, a contiguous pure-water source that underlies eight states, including eastern New Mexico.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
The Ogallala Aquifer stretches from Texas to South Dakota and contains a quadrillion gallons of water--enough to cover the U.
THERE WILL BE WATER by Susan Berfield / BusinessWeek
 
 
 
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