This has dwindled to five states in the last 20 years. Wheat production was stepped up and Western Kansans became heroes. By now the Ogallala was being pumped faster that it would replenish. With only 10 inches of annual rain to recharge it. Once again, man prevailed with the invention of the centrifugal pump and the tentacles of modern farming reached deeper into the water that had been waiting for millions of years.
Nothing is foolproof if fools try hard enough.
Don't save it, build a bigger pump. And so they did. So the people who live there had to float a few bonds. These won't float much longer - and when the workers leave the tax base will be severely cut. The Arkansas is the river that runs through the Royal Gorge and has its origin from the snow packs of the Rocky Mountains.