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...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...
...down its banks, leaving popular beaches high and dry, while parched Reno threatens to pump the lake still lower. In Arizona water scouts from the booming cities are roaming the landscape with checkbooks ready, buying farmland 90 miles distant just to get the groundwater rights. The vast Ogallala Aquifer, an underground lake that stretches from South Dakota to Texas, is being overdrawn by wells at a rate of 5 ft. a year in places, driving entire counties out of irrigated agriculture. Meanwhile, farms and cities from Salt Lake City to San Diego are literally drinking dry the Colorado River, which...
...only a slight blemish on an otherwise heartening demonstration that there apparently still exists among regular people a reservoir of affection that is deeper than the Ogallala Aquifer. Something like 75,000 people lined the streets of Columbia, which only has 66,000 residents. There were a few dissenters, of course: THE EMPEROR HAS NO BRAINS read one sign, and another said FARMS NOT ARMS. But mostly it was a greening vista of kids and parents on lawns fresh with forsythia; they were eager to show off Hickman High, one of the tops in the nation, whose...
Your story on the "Ebbing of the Ogallala" [May 10] points out the severity of the water shortage problem. The depleted Ogallala Aquifer is a result of the Government's refusal to address two problems. First, there is no federal water policy that would ensure all states the right of access to the water. Under the current laws, Nebraska, for example, could pump the entire aquifer into its reservoirs without any repercussion from its surrounding water-dependent neighbors...