{"id":2737,"date":"2004-03-26T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2004-03-26T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-26T20:53:00","slug":"draining-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/03\/26\/16\/53\/draining-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Draining Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was looking at a <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalatlas.gov\/Images\/pam7.5x5.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">map of the US aquifer system<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/capp.water.usgs.gov\/gwa\/gwa.html\">More details here<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/capp.water.usgs.gov\/gwa\/ch_d\/index.html\">Ogallala Aquifer that serves Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska<\/a> is nicely outlined. That&#8217;s draining quickly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kgs.ukans.edu\/Publications\/GeoRecord\/2002\/vol8.1\/Page1.html\">Another generation  or two and its Ogallala&#8217;s remaining  water resources will not be economically viable to extract<\/a>. Bye bye US grain production. Of course, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromthewilderness.com\/free\/ww3\/100303_eating_oil.html\n\">reduction in Canadian natural gas exports will have destroyed the US fertiliser production long before then<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier here.<a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2004_03_14_WeekArchive.php#'107973602298511125'\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was looking at a map of the US aquifer system. More details here. The Ogallala Aquifer that serves Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska is nicely outlined. That&#8217;s draining quickly. Another generation or two&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}