Running Out In Search of Water on the High Plains |
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| Author:
| Bessire, Lucas |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-21264-7 |
| Publication Date: | May 2021 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining p
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining p