NBC News declares ‘billions could starve’ as America’s water aquifers run dry
by: L.J. Devon
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, July 19, 2014
In America, a crisis is unfolding right under the public’s feet. Water scarcity is beginning to creep into the Texas panhandle and the breadbasket region of the United States. A valuable aquifer that once provided water security is drying up beneath farmers’ feet as drought-like conditions linger.
“This country became what it became largely because we had water security,” says Venki Uddameri, Ph.D., director of the Water Resources Center at Texas Tech. “That’s being threatened to a large degree now.”
The vital Ogallala Aquifer is drying up, putting billions of people at risk
The Ogallala Aquifer, sprawled out beneath eight states in the heart of the US, is being depleted with mathematical certainty. Spanning 111.8 million acres and 175,000 square miles, this vital aquifer feeds the sophisticated agricultural region from South Dakota through Nebraska and Kansas to the Texas panhandle.
As NBC News recently declared, “If the American Breadbasket cannot help supply ever-growing food demands, billions could starve.”
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