Importance of Irrigation Water to the Economy of the Texas High Plains
Author : Herbert W. Grubb
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Herbert W. Grubb
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Grubb
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Wendell Holmes
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Groundwater
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Author : Texas. Department of Water Resources
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Groundwater
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Author : Texas Tech University. Department of Economics
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Groundwater
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Author : John R. Ellis
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Arid regions agriculture
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Author : Wyatte Lafayette Harman
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Irrigation water
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Author : Donald E. Green
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0292772319
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.
Author : Lonnie L. Jones
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Agriculture
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Author : William Francis Hughes
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Agriculture
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