The Ogalla aquifier is an underground water table lying beneath 8 midwest/plains states - spanning from Texas to South Dakota. The aquifier provides much of the irrigation water for plains states farming. The aquifier is being depleted at an alarming rate, exceeding natural recharging (replenishing) of the table.
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Tech researchers receive Ogallala water study grant
Two Texas Tech researchers are part of a team receiving a $747,528 grant from the National Science Foundation to study water scarcity in the Ogallala Aquifer.
Researchers Lucia Barbato, associate director of the Center for Geospatial Technology, and Colleen Barry-Goodman, director of the Earl Survey Research Lab in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech, will use the three-year grant from the Human and Social Dynamics competition to study changing societal attitudes toward water scarcity as affected by ethanol production and increasing groundwater depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer.
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