We are pleased to announce a new, USDA-funded project devoted to extending the life of the Ogallala Aquifer in the southern High Plains.  This project, led by Colorado State University and involving scientists and engineers from Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, centers on improving irrigation technology and management to reduce agriculture’s water consumption, thereby extending the aquifer’s useful life.  Unlike the northern half, the southern half of the Ogallala Aquifer receives hardly any recharge from rainfall or surface water, so the only currently practical way of extending the aquifer’s life is to reduce withdrawals.

Here is USDA’s press release about the Water for Agriculture Program.

Here’s the Water for Agriculture Proposal in case you’d like to read it.

Our inaugural meeting is 31 March – 01 April 2016 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Amarillo.  We’ll be posting updates as the project gets underway.