Article: Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. (book reviews)

Ogallala is a comprehensive, extensively documented, and very human examination of how technological advances in farm mechanization, pumping, and crop production both eliminated the economic and human disasters created by drought in the high plains and made the region into one of the world's most productive agricultural areas. Opie demonstrates, however, that these changes have been a mixed blessing. The soil and water resources on which the region's prosperity depends are being rapidly depleted. Pumping from the Ogallala aquifer over the last 30 years has exceeded natural recharge by more than 10 times. New risks have been ...

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