PublishedPrinceton University Press, May 2021 |
ISBN9780691212647 |
FormatHardcover, 264 pages |
Dimensions21.6cm × 14cm |
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 beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining p