Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire

Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

Lucas Bessire

248 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative reflective slow-paced

Description

An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond...

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