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The Ogallala Aquifer stretches beneath eight states and irrigates a third of all groundwater used in the US. It took 10,000 years to fill. At current withdrawal rates, it will be functionally gone within 50. Farmers across the plains are adopting precision irrigation and switching to drought-tolerant crops — reducing withdrawals in some counties for the first time in a generation.

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