Texas property owners can use nearly as much water under their land as they want. That’s unlikely to change even as the state approaches a crisis.

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.

In decades past, the High Plains may have been reassured by the steady presence of the Ogallala Aquifer beneath the surface, able to nurture, produce and slake the thirst of the region’s cities.

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.

The Ogallala Aquifer, which spans eight states along the Great Plains, is the only reliable water source for parts of its region. Farmers have pumped its groundwater for decades and, as it ...

Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer. Kansas, like most states west of the Missouri River, follow a western model of water law that prioritizes the oldest water rights issued.

The expansive water source, called the High Plains aquifer by geologists, supports around $35 billion worth of crops a year, according to the Agriculture Department’s National Institute of Food ...

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 ...

LUBBOCK — The Ogallala Aquifer is buried deep throughout the High Plains. The water flowing underneath is as good as gold for farmers in the region, serving as a lifeline in years when drought ...

High Plains communities, agricultural producers, ... pay participants in targeted areas to let 80% of the groundwater typically used for irrigation remain in the Ogallala Aquifer.

Welcome to Tuesday! I’ve spent the past week sniffling my way through a cold that has taken what feels like permanent residence in my nose, throat and lungs, and from my conversations with other folks ...

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 … ...