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The water under Colorado’s Eastern Plains is running dry
- sitkack 9y agoAquifers everywhere are being destroyed, they cannot be rebuilt. Permanent dust storm on the horizon.
- fred_is_fred 9y agoThe article mentions the Great American Desert. Parts of Colorado already were this during the Dust Bowl. In northeast Colorado several natural grasslands were created in places where farming was marginal and areas became depopulated. It's such as terrible place to try to grow crops. Windy and dry, some places can go months without precipitation. Anyone farming out there now is living on borrowed time and water and shouldn't be surprised that it's drying up. Edit: I live in Colorado and visit the grasslands often for killer star gazing and I recommend anyone interested in this subject read: "The Worst Hard Times" about the Dust Bowl and "Cadillac Desert" which is about dam building in the ultra dry west (like Nevada/AZ).