Groundwater depletion: Hello great American desert, goodbye Ogallala aquifer - TomoNews

AMERICA'S BREADBASKET — The Ogallala aquifer, the world's largest source of groundwater, is shrinking due to overuse by farmers in eight U.S. states.

The aquifer underlies parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming and South Dakota. There is no shared agreement between the states on how to use it.

The Denver Post examined federal data on the aquifer and found that it had shrank at double the rate over the last 6 years, compared with the last sixty.

The water loss has impacted those living in rural areas. One resident told the Denver Post that he doesn't know if he'll get water when he turns on a faucet.

Many streams and rivers linked to the aquifer have dried up and more are expected to do so if nothing changes. Various species of fish, including the minnow and the catfish, are also disappearing.

The Denver Post reports that even if farmers in 8 the states drastically reduced their pumping, it'd take centuries for the planet to renew the aquifer.
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[waterandafter]

Not only that, but they finally broke nebraska and forced the keystone xl pipeline to go over the aquifer so when it busts open as all oil pipelines eventually do, then the water will be unusable.

[toni]

As far as the flying bug population is concerned, I'm sure that's only part of the problem you can put down to Fertilizers and weedkillers. Hundreds of millions of tons of Glyphosate killing off the planets bees and other insect life on and in the soil. Thank you Monsanto!

[michaellongo]

Pump any yearly flood waters into the Aquifer, build pipe lines dedicated to that, is that so hard to do, is that stretch for us to think about and do, spread this solution now

[chandlerbing]

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[Nox-bfjj]

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[ragingbull]

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[SouthwesternEagle]

I'm glad I live in western Phoenix in Southwestern Arizona directly on the Agua Fria River South of Lake Pleasant. While Metro Phoenix doesn't have an aquifer, my area has a permanent aquifer, but ONLY in this part of the valley. It always recharges because it comes from mountain snow. :')

[dinkinthepink]

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[AhmadDakhlallah]

Hydro/aeroponics is the only sustainable future

[stevesmith]

I live in the sierra mountains and the insects in general and noticeably bees are Way down.