The well, wide enough to fall into, taps into the Ogallala aquifer, the immense underground freshwater basin that makes modern life possible in the dry states of Middle America. We have come to ...

A stony outcropping of the sponge-like rock that makes up the Ogallala Aquifer is exposed in the hills high above Scott State Fishing Lake in Scott County, Kansas. The lake is spring-fed from ...

Sprinklers irrigate a field in Hamilton County, Kansas. Decades of irrigation has slowly drained the Ogallala Aquifer. (Allison Kite/Kansas Reflector) Aquifer levels in parts of western Kansas that ...

“‘Ogallala Aquifer’ is a story about a farmer ... it’s a great example of a writer using fiction to explore a real-life issue that is hugely important to our region.