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As the Ogallala Aquifer Dwindles, West Texas Farmers Face a Future Without Irrigated Crops

Posted on July 26, 2024 by Alan Day

Decades of overpumping, spurred in part by agricultural subsidies,
have left too much of the region with too little groundwater.

Source: As the Ogallala Aquifer Dwindles, West Texas Farmers Face a Future Without Irrigated Crops (Texas Monthly)

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