Map: The Ogallala Aquifer: A Freshwater Bonanza in Decline. Click image to enlarge. This map was created by graphic designer Erin Aigner, with research assistance from Brett Walton of Circle of Blue.

Tapping the Aquifer On a hydrographic map, the Ogallala is a Rorschach inkblot ... Although precipitation in Nebraska at the northern end of the aquifer will likely increase, scientists predict ...

The analysis used satellite data and cropland information from the U.S. Agriculture Department to map ... Ogallala Aquifer, whose groundwater irrigates parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New ...

A depth-to-water map of eastern Nebraska ... ecosystem that overlies the critically important Ogallala aquifer. Late last year, Nebraska legislators reached an agreement with TransCanada to ...

"We can map what has been traditionally unmappable," said Jim Cannia, senior geologist with Exploration Resources International, the company overseeing the aquifer mapping project. The Lower ...

In Nebraska, where the Ogallala Aquifer is enormous, it underlies the state’s extensive Sand Hills, and as in Texas and New Mexico through irrigation it supplies most of the region’s ...

“There’s a misconception that if the aquifer is contaminated, the entire water supply of Nebraska is going to be endangered, and that’s absolutely false. If people recognize the science of ...

It's a multistate study, because the aquifer is underneath not just western Kansas, but also Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas." The aquifer also extends into New Mexico, South Dakota and ...

The Canadian company TransCanada wants to build a 1,702-mile pipeline that will pass through Nebraska’s Ogallala aquifer as it transports heavy crude oil from tar sands mines in Alberta ...

In the debate over TransCanada's controversial Cananda-to-Texas oil pipe, the Ogallala aquifer and the Nebraska sandhills have emerged as flashpoints Sign up here. The Canadian company TransCanada ...