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National Climate Assessment: Great Plains’ Ogallala Aquifer Drying Out

Document Author

Michon Scott

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Document Date

February 9, 2019

Document Type

Assessments

Document Description

This Climate.gov feature highlights that the Ogallala Aquifer (which underlies parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming) is drying. This will likely be one of the most pressing issues facing water availability in the Southern Plains regions in the coming decades.