Author: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)Publisher:
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Rules of High Plains Underground Water Conservation District
Author: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Rule 23, Permitting and Regulation of Drilled Or Mined Shafts
Author: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)Publisher:
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Rules of North Plains Ground Water Conservation District No. Two
Author: North Plains Ground Water Conservation District No. 2Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
District Groundwater Planning and Management Policies on the Texas High Plains
Author: Frank L. BairdPublisher:
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Rules of the North Plains Ground Water Conservation District No. 2
Author: North Plains Water Conservation DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Natural Resources Conservation Laws
Author: Huong N. TranPublisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1
Author: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains
Author: David E. KrommPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700631623
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The High Plains region was once called the Great American Desert and thought to be, in the words of explorer Stephen Long, “wholly unfit for cultivation.” Now we know that beneath the surface, unbeknownst to the explorers and early settlers, lies the Ogallala aquifer, an underground formation that stretches for 800 miles from the Texas panhandle to South Dakota. It holds more water than Lake Huron. Indeed, the Ogallala has been referred to as the sixth Great Lake. It is the water pumped for irrigation from the Ogallala that has enabled a naturally dry region to produce up to 40 percent of America’s beef and 20 to 25 percent of its food and fiber, an output worth about $20 billion. In the forty years since the invention of center pivot irrigation, the High Plains aquifer system has been depleted at an astonishing rate. In 1978 the volume of water pumped from the aquifer exceeded the annual flow of the Colorado River. In Texas, water levels are down 200 feet in some areas. In Kansas, 700 miles of rivers that once flowed year round no longer flow at all. In short, the High Plains may be becoming the desert it was once thought to be. Is it too late to solve the problem? Geographers David Kromm and Stephen White assembled nine of the most knowledgeable scholars and water professionals in the Great Plains to help answer that question. The result is a collection of essays that insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. From a variety of perspectives they address both the technical problems and the politics of water management to provide a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation. They have included three case studies: the Nebraska Sand Hills, Northwestern Kansas, and West Texas. Kromm and White provide an introduction and conclusion to the volume.
Land of the Underground Rain
Author: Donald E. GreenPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292772319
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The scarcity of surface water which has so marked the Great Plains is even more characteristic of its subdivision, the Texas High Plains. Settlers on the plateau were forced to use pump technology to tap the vast ground water resources—the underground rain—beneath its flat surface. The evolution from windmills to the modern high-speed irrigation pumps took place over several decades. Three phases characterized the movement toward irrigation. In the period from 1910 to 1920, large-volume pumping plants first appeared in the region, but, due to national and regional circumstances, these premature efforts were largely abortive. The second phase began as a response to the drouth of the Dust Bowl and continued into the 1950s. By 1959, irrigation had become an important aspect of the flourishing High Plains economy. The decade of the 1960s was characterized chiefly by a growing alarm over the declining ground water table caused by massive pumping, and by investigations of other water sources. Land of the Underground Rain is a study in human use and threatened exhaustion of the High Plains' most valuable natural resource. Ground water was so plentiful that settlers believed it flowed inexhaustibly from some faraway place or mysteriously from a giant underground river. Whatever the source, they believed that it was being constantly replenished, and until the 1950s they generally opposed effective conservation of ground water. A growing number of weak and dry wells then made it apparent that Plains residents were "mining" an exhaustible resource. The Texas High Plains region has been far more successful in exploiting its resource than in conserving it. The very success of its pump technology has produced its environmental crisis. The problem brought about by the threatened exhaustion of this resource still awaits a solution. This study is the first comprehensive history of irrigation on the Texas High Plains, and it is the first comprehensive treatment of the development of twentieth-century pump irrigation in any area of the United States.
The Role of Ground Water in the National Water Situation
Author: Charles Lee McGuinnessPublisher:
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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