Author: Kansas Water Office
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
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Descriptors: Kansas Ogallala Area, Ogallala aquifer.
Ogallala Aquifer Study in Kansas
Author: Kansas Water Office
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages :
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Descriptors: Kansas Ogallala Area, Ogallala aquifer.
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
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Descriptors: Kansas Ogallala Area, Ogallala aquifer.
Ogallala Aquifer Study in Kansas
Author: John P. Wagner
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Category : Energy industries
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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Category : Energy industries
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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Ogallala Aquifer Study in Kansas
Author: Howard Grant O'Connor
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Ogallala Aquifer Study in Kansas
Author: M. Jarvin Emerson
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Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Hydrology of the Ogallala Aquifer in Ford County, Southwestern Kansas
Author: Joseph M. Spinazola
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Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Ogallala Aquifer Study in Kansas
Author: Orlan H. Buller
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Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains
Author: David E. Kromm
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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In the forty years since the invention of center pivot irrigation, the Nigh Plains aquifer system has been depleted at an astonishing rate. Is the region now in danger of becoming the Great American Desert? In this volume eleven of the most knowledgeable scholars and water professionals in the Great Plains insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. They address both the technical problems and the politics of water management, providing a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation.
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In the forty years since the invention of center pivot irrigation, the Nigh Plains aquifer system has been depleted at an astonishing rate. Is the region now in danger of becoming the Great American Desert? In this volume eleven of the most knowledgeable scholars and water professionals in the Great Plains insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. They address both the technical problems and the politics of water management, providing a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation.
Six-state High Plains Ogallala Aquifer Regional Resources Study
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Report -- Appendixes A, B, C, D and E.
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Report -- Appendixes A, B, C, D and E.
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains
Author: David E. Kromm
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
A Summary of Results of the Ogallala Aquifer Regional Study, with Recommendations to the Secretary of Commerce and Congress
Author: High Plains Study Council (U.S.)
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Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Publisher:
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Category : Aquifers
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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