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 heartland The 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 beyon...

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informative 100%
reflective 63%
challenging 36%
sad 27%
tense 27%
emotional 18%

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slow 36%
fast 9%

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