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Farmers are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer because the government pays them to do it

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Alan Day

An invisible crisis is brewing in US farm country as the overpumped Ogallala-High Plains Aquifer drains. The key drivers are federal farm subsidies and the tax code.

Source: Farmers are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer because the government pays them to do it

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