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Farmers are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer because the government pays them to do it

  • Written by Matthew R Sanderson, Professor of Sociology and Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State University
imageA center-pivot sprinkler with precision application drop nozzles irrigates cotton in Texas.USDA NRCS/Wikipedia

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...

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