Farmers Are Depleting the Ogallala Aquifer Because the Government Pays Them to Do So

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By The ConversationNov 9, 2020, 10:14 am259 pts
By Matthew R Sanderson, Burke Griggs and Jacob A. Miller A slow-moving crisis threatens the U.S. Central Plains, which grow a quarter of the nation's crops. Underground, the region's lifeblood – water – is disappearing, placing one of the world's major food-producing regions at risk. The Ogallala-High…

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