The Ogallala acquirer, largest in the world, is being DRAINED by farmers, not to grow food, primarily, but to grow corn, for government subsidized ethanol, that takes more energy to grow than it produces, depriving the world of much needed food.
It refills at approximately one inch per year, in good years, but we’ve been in a drought/climate change/global warming, whatever, for MANY years, and the level has dropped, from 30 to 300 feet, depending on where you measure.j I’ve found, recently, personally, you don’t miss water until you don’t have it…and stooopid government policy is drying up/wasting the most precious resource we have. A couple generations from now, when they’re sucking the last drops, they’ll look back and say…OMG, what was wrong with them? And the answer is politicians….who had to have the farm vote(R), and sold the future, to be reelected. Never mind, if I gotta explain, you don’t give a shit…. How many years of water is left in the Ogallala Aquifer, according to AI? 50 to 100 years How much water is left in the Ogallala Aquifer? The exact amount of water remaining in the Ogallala Aquifer is difficult to determine, as it depends on a variety of factors. However, the USGS estimates that there is enough wat...
