As the Ogallala Aquifer Dwindles, West Texas Farmers Face a Future Without Irrigated Crops ... “With irrigation, this is such a good place to farm,” he said.

Water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer continue to plummet as farm irrigation swallows an average of more than 2 billion gallons of groundwater per day statewide. But after decades of mostly ...

Wallace County — The Ogallala Aquifer has a visibility problem. It’s easy to see when drought, farm irrigation and city taps drain the great reservoirs of the Southwest. Bathtub rings paint ...

Water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer continue to plummet as farm irrigation swallows an average of more than 2 billion gallons of groundwater per day statewide. But after decades of mostly ...

Wallace County, Kansas. The Ogallala Aquifer has a visibility problem. It’s easy to see when drought, farm irrigation and city taps drain the great reservoirs of the Southwest.

The Ogallala Aquifer has a visibility problem. It’s easy to see when drought, farm irrigation and city taps drain the great reservoirs of the Southwest. Bathtub rings paint the red rock walls ...

Texas property owners can use nearly as much water under their land as they want. That’s unlikely to change even as the state approaches a crisis.

The Ogallala Aquifer has many users including farmers for irrigation and municipalities for drinking water. However, its supply of water is being depleted faster than it is being replenished.

The Ogallala Aquifer provides irrigation for 30% of all farmland in the U.S., including western Oklahoma. According to water and irrigation specialists with ...

Mark Haubner First, the Numbers The Suffolk County Water Authority presentation in Southold June 12 offered the number, 93 ...

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.