Download or read book Water and Associated Costs in the Production of Cotton and Grain Sorghum Texas High Plains 1955 written by William Francis Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Economics Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation Research Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hydrology Conservation and Management of Runoff Water in Playas on the Southern High Plains written by Victor L. Hauser and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land of the Underground Rain written by Donald E. Green and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scarcity of surface water which has so marked the Great Plains is even more characteristic of its subdivision, the Texas High Plains. Settlers on the plateau were forced to use pump technology to tap the vast ground water resources—the underground rain—beneath its flat surface. The evolution from windmills to the modern high-speed irrigation pumps took place over several decades. Three phases characterized the movement toward irrigation. In the period from 1910 to 1920, large-volume pumping plants first appeared in the region, but, due to national and regional circumstances, these premature efforts were largely abortive. The second phase began as a response to the drouth of the Dust Bowl and continued into the 1950s. By 1959, irrigation had become an important aspect of the flourishing High Plains economy. The decade of the 1960s was characterized chiefly by a growing alarm over the declining ground water table caused by massive pumping, and by investigations of other water sources. Land of the Underground Rain is a study in human use and threatened exhaustion of the High Plains' most valuable natural resource. Ground water was so plentiful that settlers believed it flowed inexhaustibly from some faraway place or mysteriously from a giant underground river. Whatever the source, they believed that it was being constantly replenished, and until the 1950s they generally opposed effective conservation of ground water. A growing number of weak and dry wells then made it apparent that Plains residents were "mining" an exhaustible resource. The Texas High Plains region has been far more successful in exploiting its resource than in conserving it. The very success of its pump technology has produced its environmental crisis. The problem brought about by the threatened exhaustion of this resource still awaits a solution. This study is the first comprehensive history of irrigation on the Texas High Plains, and it is the first comprehensive treatment of the development of twentieth-century pump irrigation in any area of the United States.
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward Meeting Soil and Water Conservation Research Needs written by United States. Agricultural Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of University Business and Economic Research Reports written by United States. Small Business Administration and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin Texas Agricultural Experiment Station written by Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward Meeting Soil and Water Conservation Research Needs written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of University Business and Economic Research Reports written by University of Texas. Bureau of Business Research and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miscellaneous Publication Texas Agricultural Experiment Station written by Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ogallala written by John Opie and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the product of eons of accumulated glacial melts, ancient Rocky Mountain snowmelts, and rainfall, all percolating slowly through gravel beds hundreds of feet thick. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land is an environmental history and historical geography that tells the story of human defiance and human commitment within the Ogallala region. It describes the Great Plains' natural resources, the history of settlement and dryland farming, and the remarkable irrigation technologies that have industrialized farming in the region. This newly updated third edition discusses three main issues: long-term drought and its implications, the efforts of several key groundwater management districts to regulate the aquifer, and T. Boone Pickens's failed effort to capture water from the aquifer to supply major Texas urban areas. This edition also describes the fierce independence of Texas ranchers and farmers who reject any governmental or bureaucratic intervention in their use of water, and it updates information about the impact of climate change on the aquifer and agriculture. Read Char Miller's article on theconversation.com to learn more about the Ogallala Aquifer.
Download or read book General Economic Aspects of Utilization of Underground Water for Irrigation in High Plains of Texas written by Texas Tech University. Department of Economics and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compositional and Physiological Responses of the Cotton Plant to the Systemic Insecticides Schradan and Demeton written by A. F. DeWerth and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
