News and Updates

News and Updates

The water under Colorado’s Eastern Plains is running dry as farmers keep irrigating “great American desert”


Colorado farmers who defied nature’s limits and nourished a pastoral paradise by irrigating drought-prone prairie are pushing ahead in the face of worsening environmental fallout: Overpumping of groundwater has drained the High Plains Aquifer to the point that streams are drying up at the rate of 6 miles a year.

For the full article from The Denver Post, click here.

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