Word: ogallala
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Hometown: Ogallala, Nebraska...
That was before she learned how completely the old windmills had been supplanted by pumps that drink from the deep and fast depleting Ogallala Aquifer, or how much the region has been penetrated by giant hog farms, corporate operations that can leach toxic waste into the water table and foul the air for miles with burning stink. So now her main character is Bob Dollar, a young man who comes to the Panhandle from Colorado to secretly scout locations for Global Pork Rind, an outfit based in Tokyo that wants to start vast hog farms. As you might expect, Dollar...
...industries. In the Panhandle, the problem is pig poop, with exactly the same results, except there they are mad at the Japanese, who own many of the corporate farms. The pig poop gets into the playa lakes, round depressions in the high plains, and is starting to affect the Ogallala Aquifer. In East Texas it's chicken factories...