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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

by Lucas Bessire

An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland The 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 planetary cris

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

May 18, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

264

ISBN

9780691212647