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Running Out : In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Running Out : In Search of Water on the High Plains about?
Finalist for the National Book Award An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force. Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lucas Bessire
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691224121
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Engineering, Anthropology
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (69 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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