Author: Hugh E. BevansPublisher:
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Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Water Resources of Sedgwick County, Kansas
Author: Hugh E. BevansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Elevations
Author: Max McCoyPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700626026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Max McCoy embarked on a trip of 742 miles in search of the river’s unique story. Part adventure and part reflection, steeped in the natural and cultural history of the Arkansas Valley, Elevations is McCoy’s account of that journey. Going by kayak when he can—by Jeep, on foot, or by other means when he has to—McCoy takes us with him, navigating the Arkansas River as it reveals its nature and tests his own. Along the way, and when he isn’t battling the current for his overturned kayak; braving a frigid Christmas Eve along the river; or joining the search for a drowning victim, he steps out to explore the world beyond the river’s banks. Here for instance is Camp Amache, where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Here is Ludlow, where thirteen women and children died in a standoff between striking coal miners and the militia in 1914. Farther along we find Sand Creek, site of a massacre by US soldiers in 1864, and, uncomfortably close, Garden City, where white supremacists were charged with planning a terror attack on Somali refugees in 2016. Whether traveling back in time, pausing in the present, or looking forward, Elevations captures the Arkansas River in its thrilling moments and placid stretches, in its natural splendor and degradation at human hands. The book shows us the river as a flowing repository of human history and, in the telling of this gifted writer, as a life-changing experience.
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains
Author: David E. KrommPublisher:
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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.
Running Out
Author: Lucas BessirePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Finalist for the National Book Award An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future. An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.
Optimization of the High Plains Aquifer Observation Network, Kansas
Author: Ricardo A. OleaPublisher:
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Descriptors: aquifers, groundwater, High Plains aquifer, observation wells, sampling procedures.
Water Resources
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on National Water ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 1420
Book Description
National Water Summary
Author: Effects of Irrigation Practices on Water Use in the Groundwater Management Districts Within the Kansas High Plains, 1991-2003
Author: Charles A. PerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 1990
Author: Wayne B. SolleyPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: