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 ...

Agriculture As the Ogallala Aquifer Dwindles, West Texas Farmers Face a Future Without Irrigated Crops Decades of overpumping, spurred in part by agricultural subsidies, have left too much of the ...

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 ...

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.

Clay Scott examined an irrigation pivot with oldest son Ty in a corn field near their family farm in Ulysses, Kan. Scott is already feeling the effects of the depleted Ogallala Aquifer, from which ...

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 ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – The Ogallala Aquifer has fueled irrigation systems essential for the High Plains to stand resilient against historic drought conditions throughout the last century ...

The Ogallala Aquifer, the vast underground reservoir that gives life to these fields, ... The number of irrigation wells in West Texas alone exploded from 1,166 in 1937 to more than 66,000 in 1971.

Between the late 19th century and 2005, the US Geological Survey estimates irrigation depleted the aquifer by 253 million acre-feet — about nine percent of its total volume. And the pace is ...

The Ogallala Aquifer was formed more than 25,000 years ago, but it recharges at a very low rate. For years, irrigators in Kansas have drained more from the aquifer than rainfall can replace.

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. Bathtub rings ...