Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

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…

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