Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

by Lucas Bessire

Book Overview

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 a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691216436
• ISBN13: 9780691216430
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"