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    Exclamation The Ogallala aquifer is drying up

    The Ogallala aquifer is drying up...


    Rural areas at risk as water levels fall in massive aquifer
    Tue, Nov 14, 2017 - The draining of a massive aquifer that underlies portions of eight states in the central US is drying up streams, causing fish to disappear and threatening the livelihood of farmers who rely on it for their crops.
    The Ogallala’s water levels have been dropping for decades as irrigators pump water faster than rainfall can recharge it. An analysis of federal data found the Ogallala aquifer shrank twice as fast over the past six years compared with the previous 60, the Denver Post reports. The drawdown has become so severe that streams are drying at a rate of 10km per year and some highly resilient fish are disappearing. In rural areas, farmers and ranchers worry they will no longer have enough water for their livestock and crops as the aquifer is depleted.


    The aquifer lost 1.32 million hectare-meters of storage between 2013 and 2015, the US Geological Survey said in a June report. “Now I never know, from one minute to the next, when I turn on a faucet or hydrant, whether there will be water or not,” said Lois Scott, 75, who lives west of Cope, Colorado, north of the frequently bone-dry bed of the Arikaree River. A 12m well her grandfather dug by hand in 1914 gave water until recently, she said, lamenting the loss of lawns where children once frolicked and green pastures for cows.


    Scott is now considering a move to Brush, Colorado, and leaving her family’s historic homestead farm. “This will truly become the Great American Desert,” she said. Also known as the High Plains Aquifer, the Ogallala underlies 453,000km2, including parts of Colorado, Wyoming Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas. That is one of the primary agricultural regions of the US, producing US$35 billion in crops annually.


    Farmers and ranchers have been tapping into the aquifer since the 1930s to boost production and help them get by in times of drought. However, overpumping has dried up 576km of surface rivers and streams across a 518km2 area covering eastern Colorado, western Kansas and Nebraska, according to researchers from Colorado State University and Kansas State University. If farmers keep pumping water at the current pace, another 458km2 of rivers and streams would be lost before 2060, the researchers said.


    http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../14/2003682254

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    A friend had to have his well redone a year of so ago, had to go to 50 feet to get good flow. The previous one had collapsed which is caused by falling water table.
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    As the amount of water on earth, has been the same, for millions of years, I wonder why?
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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    As the amount of water on earth, has been the same, for millions of years, I wonder why?
    The Ogallala is a shallow aquifer and is being pumped faster than it can replenish itself. The annual drop has doubled in the last decade as drought has been in the area and not as much water has been percolating into it.

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    We need to start using the oceans in desalinization plants world wide power them with wind and solar. Hell I can buy a solar still for 25 bucks or make one for a couple dollars worth of stuff I have in my garage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmyz View Post
    We need to start using the oceans in desalinization plants world wide power them with wind and solar. Hell I can buy a solar still for 25 bucks or make one for a couple dollars worth of stuff I have in my garage.
    You don't need to use oceans. There is quite a large quantity of salt water trapped in the ground already. Hit one of those while drilling a freshwater well and cross contaminate the water shed and the government will make you its slave for life.

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    Bottled water, takes billions of gallons too fast out of aquifers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Bottled water, takes billions of gallons too fast out of aquifers.
    Huh? Never heard that. I'm pretty sure the major culprit for the Ogallala is growing corn in a fairly dry area like the midwest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    Huh? Never heard that. I'm pretty sure the major culprit for the Ogallala is growing corn in a fairly dry area like the midwest.
    Here in fla near me the water co sold water rights to a bottled water company for 50.00 they said by law they had too. The bottler was pulling 2 million gallons a week out of the aquifer then suddenly sink holes increased dramatically.

    Sink holes are created when the aquifer water table drops and leaves a gap between the sandy soil above to the water. Whole buildings get sucked into sink holes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Here in fla near me the water co sold water rights to a bottled water company for 50.00 they said by law they had too. The bottler was pulling 2 million gallons a week out of the aquifer then suddenly sink holes increased dramatically.

    Sink holes are created when the aquifer water table drops and leaves a gap between the sandy soil above to the water. Whole buildings get sucked into sink holes.
    Damn, I had no idea about the bottled water thing. Which bottler?

    And yeah, that's the same reason wells collapse around here but the water table is so far down sinkholes are very rare.
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