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Written on water : a modern tale of a dry West / directed by Merri Lisa Trigilio ; narrated by Andy Wilkinson ; produced by Merri Lisa Trigilio, Deep Time Media.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aquifers--Great Plains.
- Aquifers.
- Water-supply--Great Plains.
- Water-supply.
- Groundwater--Great Plains.
- Groundwater.
- Irrigation farming--Environmental aspects--Great Plains.
- Irrigation farming.
- Water use--Law and legislation--Great Plains.
- Water use.
- Ogallala Aquifer.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (58 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Stonington, CT : Green Planet Films, 2015.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Written on Water focuses on the Ogallala Aquifer and examines the conflicts, politics, economics and groundwater depletion in the High Plains region. Farmers and communities survive on the precious waters of the Aquifer, yet it is being depleted at alarming rates. Since the 1960's, advances in irrigation technology allowed farmers to transform the '˜Great American Desert' into their own fertile agricultural oasis. The Ogallala supports over one-fifth of the grain, beef and cotton of the U.S. agricultural economy and over eighty percent of the drinking water for people living in the High Plains. But the Rocky Mountain waters that fed the Ogallala Aquifer are not being replenished, so essentially, the Aquifer is being mined.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 19, 2022).
- OCLC:
- 1344517447
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