This is shorthand for the aquifer itself. The Ogallala is a giant ... By 1820 the territories that became Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma had been condemned on maps as the Great American Desert ...

A stony outcropping of the sponge-like rock that makes up the Ogallala Aquifer is exposed in the hills high above Scott State Fishing Lake in Scott County, Kansas. The lake is spring-fed from ...

Jared Faurot’s blue jeans are getting sprayed under the drip hose sprinklers. Faurot stands beside a center pivot tower, fiddling with a spigot, aiming it closer to the ground. He turned water ...

The danger zone for the Ogallala, the region in which the amount of water remaining in the aquifer is lowest, is a rectangle of land running 725 kilometers (450 miles) from the Kansas-Nebraska line in ...

The Ogallala Aquifer crosses eight states and is North America’s largest underground source of fresh water. Map: Erin Aigner for Circle of Blue To the economic gains, now add ecological benefits.