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Keeping The Breadbasket From Drying Up [1]

Right now, America's Bread Basket relies on an aquifer that's nearly drained.  And, many say, it will dry up if farmers keep pumping water from it at the current rate.  The Environment Report's Devin Browne reports the government plans to pay farmers as one way to get them to cut water use.

Agriculture [2]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [3]
Public [4]
Source: Environment Report [5], 09/18/2009
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/keeping-the-breadbasket-from-drying-up [2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture [3] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-plains [4] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [5] http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=4663