Ogallala Blue Water and Life on the Great Plains

Name: Ogallala Blue Water and Life on the Great Plains
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ISBN: 9780881507362

ISBN-10: 0881507369

ISBN-13: 9780881507362

Edition: 2007

Authors: William Ashworth

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A story of a crucial, dwindling natural resource: an invisible ocean of fresh water under the High Plains. The Ogallala Aquifer that lies deep beneath the Great Plains from Texas to Colorado contains enough water to fill Lake Erie nine times! Every year five trillion gallons are pumped out for irrigation, and if (or when) the aquifer goes dry, $20 billion worth of food and fiber grown with that irrigation will disappear. William Ashforth tells the fascinating history of the Ogallala from its formation millions of years ago to glimpses of the future when the Great Plains could return to their Sahara Desert-like past. 1 map, index.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Prologue: The Palisaded Plain



The Underground Ocean



The Phantom Reservoir



The Flattest Land



Pumping Kansas Dry



Declining Fortunes



A State of Nature



Don't Drink the Water



Too Important to Stop



Paper Water



To Determine Their Destiny



The Ghosts of Ancient Rivers



Peering at the Edge



To Dig a Hole



Holocene



"Wholly Unfit for Cultivation"



Finding the Water



Circles on the Plain



Apocalypse Delayed



Minimum Water



Adaptation



The Opportunity to be Efficient



Making Every Bit Count



A Tenuous Balance



An Elephant in a Dark Room



Roberts County Rancher



Drowning Texas Tech



The Long Farewell


Epilogue: The Buffalo Spring


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index