Small towns struggle in the region, where the Ogallala aquifer is pumped for irrigation. I cross over the state line into Clovis, a city with ambition but not enough water. Irrigation has drawn ...

“Even a 5% improvement in irrigation efficiency can translate into thousands of gallons of water saved per pivot each season, ...

The Ogallala Aquifer is an enormous underground water ... Even worse, another 120 billion gallons a year could be needed for irrigation to grow more corn in the region, and any increased corn ...

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 ...

That is the Ogallala Aquifer. The subsurface reservoirs trapped ... more than half of their water disappear since the dawn of irrigation. Wallace County on the Colorado border for example has ...

Calling the Ogallala Aquifer “critical to the viability ... Texas and a $33 million loss for Kansas agriculture by 2050. Irrigation in the High Plains began in the 1940s, with increasing ...

The Ogallala Aquifer has been in decline since the mid-20th Century. After World War II, a boom in groundwater irrigation transformed arid western Kansas into an agricultural powerhouse.

Topeka? Massive irrigation in western Kansas is depleting the Ogallala Aquifer from 5 percent to 7 percent every 25 years, according to a new report by the Kansas Geological Survey. “We have a ...