If Kansas farmers keep irrigating crops at present levels, an estimated 69 percent of the water in the High Plains Aquifer will depleted within 50 years, according to a study released Monday.

Fortunately for Nebraska, the Cornhusker state covers about 70% of the water in the High Plains Aquifer. Brozović said that, in many places, it’s over 1,000 feet thick.

The over-tapping of the High Plains Aquifer's groundwater beyond the aquifer's recharge rate peaked in 2006, new research shows. Its use is projected to decrease by roughly 50 percent in the next ...

Michael Wines of The New York Times reports on how the rapidly dwindling supply of water in the High Plains Aquifer has hurt farmers from the High Plains to Texas. By Carol Flake May 21, 2013 12 ...

LUBBOCK, TEXAS — The Ogallala Aquifer across the region has dropped about 325 billion gallons every year for at least the past four decades. To put that number into perspective, the roughly 1 ...

So the researchers consulted annual estimates of the High Plains Aquifer’s thickness, which date back to 1935, along with county-level yields of corn and soybean from 1985 through 2016.

Long-term (1970s–2016) changes in groundwater geochemistry in the High Plains aquifer in south-central Kansas, USA. Hydrogeology Journal , 2019; DOI: 10.1007/s10040-019-02083-z Cite This Page : ...

If Kansas farmers keep irrigating crops at current levels, an estimated 69 percent of the water in the High Plains Aquifer will depleted within 50 years, according to a study released Monday.

In the Southern High Plains, groundwater levels have fallen more than 150 feet. At the Nebraska end of the High Plains Aquifer, levels are virtually unchanged from the pre-irrigation era.

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – Parched for months, fired by yet another unforgiving heatwave, piled with wind-scattered topsoil and ash, the hard-packed clay of the High Plains resembled less … ...

Nearly 70 percent of the groundwater stored in parts of the United States' High Plains Aquifer — a vast underground reservoir that stretches through eight states, from South Dakota to Texas, and ...

The High Plains Aquifer provides 30 percent of the water used in the nation's irrigated agriculture. The aquifer runs under South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico ...