Reports on the aquifer as a diminishing resource date back to the 1930s, when President Franklin Roosevelt appointed a Great Plains committee to examine the cause of the Dust Bowl. Even then ...

sediment from the Rocky Mountains was deposited in the High Plains. Over thousands of years, water dripped below the surface creating an underground water deposit called the Ogallala Aquifer.

A second component of the aquifer is the Great Bend Prairie aquifer ... The largest component of the High Plains aquifer is the Ogallala aquifer. It is under most of western Kansas.

The lengthy residence times observed in the Nubian and High Plains aquifers are not unique ... long-term management strategies are to succeed. Aquifer- or watershed-based communities should ...