Category Archives: Irrigation

Stormzilla and the Value of Panhandle Groundwater

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The Weather Channel is estimating that the storm that caused last week’s epic flooding in southeast Texas generated 6.5 TRILLION gallons of water.  Most of that water ended up in the Gulf of Mexico, where it’s probably doing some good.  So that water wasn’t entirely wasted.  But what if? What if we had a reservoir and pipeline system that allowed us to pump that water up the hill to the Texas Panhandle, where we could inject it into the Ogallala Aquifer as artificial recharge?  How much Panhandle crop production would that… Read More →

Extending the Life of the Ogallala Aquifer

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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… Read More →