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Ogallala Aquiferwhere is Ogallala Aquifer located? - correct answer central USA what has Ogallala aquifer been massively overexploited by? - correct answer agricultural uses what are the recharge rates of aquifers like in general? - correct answer very slow how many states does the Ogallala aquifer span? - correct answer 8 how large is the Ogallala aquifer? - correct answer 450,000 km squared how much of water used for irrigation in the USA comes from the Ogallala aquifer? - correct answer 30% how long will the Ogallala aquifer take to recharge once depleted? - correct answer 6,000 years since 1950 how much has agricultural irrigation decreased saturated volume by in the Ogallala aquifer? - correct answer an estimated 9% how many people does the Ogallala aquifer system supply 82% of drinking water for? - correct answer 2.3 million how much did the withdrawals from the Ogallala aquifer amount to by 2000? - correct answer 26 km cubed what is the recharge of the Ogallala aquifer in parts of Texas and New Mexico? - correct answer 0.024 inches per year what is the recharge of the Ogallala aquifer in southern central Kansas? - correct answer 6 inches per year how do recharge rates of aquifers vary? - correct answer spatially how do aquifers recharge? - correct answer - from natural percolation - man-made implementation how many bushels of wheat were made in 2012 in Kansas, that is supported by irrigation from the Ogallala aquifer? - correct answer 382 million what is the largest aquifer in North America? - correct answer Ogallala what is threatened in the Ogallala aquifer? - correct answer the overall sustainability of the aquifer and of agriculture what is the rate of decrease in the Ogallala aquifer? - correct answer 1 ft per year in drought what is the rate of decrease in the Ogallala aquifer? - correct answer 2 ft per year as an average, how much has the Ogallala aquifer decreased by since 1996? - correct answer 14 ft in western Kansas how long can it take for the aquifer to recharge by < 1 inch? - correct answer 1 year what are there efforts to do? - correct answer - cut pumping by 20% over the next 5 years - cut back by 2.1 ft/yr what is getting lower year by year? - correct answer the Ogallala aquifer level