Jared Faurot farms thousands of acres of wheat, corn and sorghum in Scott County, Kansas, part of the 4-County LEMA district ...

The Ogallala Aquifer, a water source of porous rock and sediment bed under farmland, cities and small towns from South Dakota ...

Map: The Ogallala Aquifer: A Freshwater Bonanza in Decline. Click image to enlarge. This map was created by graphic designer Erin Aigner, with research assistance from Brett Walton of Circle of Blue.

The analysis used satellite data and cropland information from the U.S. Agriculture Department to map ... the Ogallala Aquifer, whose groundwater irrigates parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska ...

The aquifer supplies about 85% of the water for irrigated agriculture farms. Those farms contribute to the Kansas economy.

Industrial agriculture on the Great Plains began in the 1950s when mechanized pumps and sprinkler irrigation systems allowed trillions of gallons of water to be pulled each year from the Ogallala ...

A stony outcropping of the sponge-like rock that makes up the Ogallala Aquifer is exposed in the hills high above Scott State Fishing Lake in Scott County, Kansas. The lake is spring-fed from ...

That is the Ogallala aquifer. The subsurface reservoirs trapped between fractured layers of rock and soil saved this region after the infamous Dust Bowl, and remain the source of economic life in ...

Suite 2B, in Amarillo. “Ogallala Aquifer’ is a story about a farmer, his daughter and her son grappling with how to respond to corporate pollution that threatens the groundwater under their land.

The Ogallala Aquifer yields less and less ... A 2019 study by researchers at the University of Nebraska and Clemson University, in South Carolina, found that the rate of groundwater depletion ...

That is the Ogallala Aquifer. The subsurface reservoirs trapped between fractured layers of rock and soil saved this region after the infamous Dust Bowl, and remain the source of economic life in ...