Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains
- ISBN-10
- 0881507369
- ISBN-13
- 9780881507362
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 330
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-07-01
- Author
- William Ashworth
Description
Documents the history of the hidden High Plains aquifer that lies deep beneath the Great Plains between Texas and Colorado, citing its role in irrigation and agriculture while explaining the growing threat that it may run dry, a circumstance that would revert the Great Plains to its original desert-like climate. Reprint.
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