Word: ogallala
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sulfide (a poisonous gas produced by decaying manure that smells like rotten eggs), all combined with another blend of aromas wafting from five cesspits each 25 ft. deep and the size of a football field. They are, in effect, open-air sewage ponds, and 75 ft. below lies the Ogallala aquifer, which provides drinking and irrigation water for much of that part of the country...
...event, co-sponsored by the Harvard Education Forum and the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), brought to the University a troupe of 10 young, Ogallala Sioux actors, aged 13 to 15, who came to preach the dangers of alcohol consumption during pregnancy...
...states out there are raising their speed limit to 75 m.p.h. and that driving at that speed instead of 55 uses 50% more gasoline. Renting a car in Omaha and heading west at 75 m.p.h., I figured, I would run through my windfall somewhere between North Platte and Ogallala...
Bill Kastner of the U.S. Geological Survey office in Denver monitors the monstrous Ogallala Aquifer, that famous underground sponge that reaches from South Dakota to the high plains of Texas, touches eight states and embraces 174,000 sq. mi. In some places the water level has fallen 200 ft., leaving the balance between use and recharge from rainfall in precarious condition. Given a little hot dry weather and good farm prices that encourage increased grain planting, the irrigation pumps will begin to whir, in all likelihood sucking up more water than will be replaced...