[PDF.26gc] Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains

Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains

[PDF.qy69] Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains

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 | #662849 in Books |  2006-06-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.13 x6.82 x9.50l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 330 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Ogallala Blue - Water and LIfe on the Great Plains|By RWstone|One of the largest aquifers in the world, is located under the Great Plains region of the US. It is a resource that could be pumped dry within a few generations, if steps are not taken to protect this valuable and life sustaining asset. The effects of pumping dry the Ogallala Aquifer, will have dramatic effects on|From Publishers Weekly|People of the Great Plains have been drawing on the underground water of the sprawling Ogallala Aquifer for centuries. But it took a failed tinkerer's single inspired invention in 1948—the center-pivot sprinkler system—to preci

The story of a crucial, dwindling natural resource: an invisible ocean of fresh water under the Great Plains.

The Ogallala aquifer contains enough water to fill Lake Erie not once but nine times over, and it stretches from Texas to South Dakota, from Colorado almost to Nebraska. Every year, five trillion gallons are pumped out for irrigation, and if the aquifer went dry (or, more accurately, when it goes dry), $20 billion worth of food and fiber woul...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains   |  William Ashworth. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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