Author: David E. Kromm
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In the forty years since the invention of center pivot irrigation, the Nigh Plains aquifer system has been depleted at an astonishing rate. Is the region now in danger of becoming the Great American Desert? In this volume eleven of the most knowledgeable scholars and water professionals in the Great Plains insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. They address both the technical problems and the politics of water management, providing a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation.
Irrigation on the great plains
Author: Frederick Haynes Newell
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Publisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains
Author: David E. Kromm
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In the forty years since the invention of center pivot irrigation, the Nigh Plains aquifer system has been depleted at an astonishing rate. Is the region now in danger of becoming the Great American Desert? In this volume eleven of the most knowledgeable scholars and water professionals in the Great Plains insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. They address both the technical problems and the politics of water management, providing a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In the forty years since the invention of center pivot irrigation, the Nigh Plains aquifer system has been depleted at an astonishing rate. Is the region now in danger of becoming the Great American Desert? In this volume eleven of the most knowledgeable scholars and water professionals in the Great Plains insightfully examine the dilemmas of groundwater use. They address both the technical problems and the politics of water management, providing a badly needed analysis of the implications of large-scale irrigation.
Irrigation on the Great Plains
Author: Frederick Haynes Newell
Publisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
How the Great Plains Area is Meeting the Problem of Irrigation Pumping
Author: George S. Knapp
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Supplement to Farming in the Great Plains
Author: August Ludwig Hormay
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Category : Acreage allotments
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
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Category : Acreage allotments
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Water Use/yield Relationships for Central Great Plains Crops
Author: David Christopher Nielsen
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Category : Conservation tillage
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
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Category : Conservation tillage
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Water use/yield relationships for central Great Plains crops
Author: D. C. Nielsen
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Category : Conservation tillage
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
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Category : Conservation tillage
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Running Out
Author: Lucas Bessire
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Finalist for the National Book Award 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 planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future. An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Finalist for the National Book Award 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 planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future. An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.
The Effect of Irrigation on Precipitation in the Great Plains
Author: Paul T. Schickedanz
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Category : Crops and climate
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
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Category : Crops and climate
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Great Plains
Author: Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
A study of the changes initiated into the systems and culture of the plain dwellers
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
A study of the changes initiated into the systems and culture of the plain dwellers