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Map: Texas and Kansas Water Use (1985-2005) - Circle of Blue
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As aquifer levels decline in the Great Plains, states weigh the need to meter irrigation wells - Iowa Public Radio
About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to ...
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As aquifer levels decline, states weigh the need to meter irrigation wells | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR
About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to ...
How Memphis aquifer could be at risk from decades-old pollution, U of M researchers say
Researchers say holes in the clay that overlays the Memphis aquifer could have let pollutants from as early as the 1940s into the groundwater.
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The global crisis of vanishing groundwater - USA TODAY
Much of the planet relies on groundwater. And in places around the world – from the United States to Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America – so much water is pumped from the ground ...
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U.S. Aquifers Are Running Dry, Posing Major Threat to Drinking Water Supply - Democracy Now!
A major New York Times investigation reveals how the United States’ aquifers are becoming severely depleted due to overuse in part from huge industrial farms and sprawling cities. The Times ...
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Virginia Uses Treated Wastewater to Shore Up a Drinking Water Aquifer - The New York Times
Virginia doesn’t have a megadrought like some parts of the United States, but it has water problems all the same: Homes and businesses in the Hampton Roads region, in the southeastern corner of ...