GraycenWheeler

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Graycen Wheeler is a reporter covering water issues at KOSU. She joined KOSU in June 2022 as a corps member with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative that places emerging journalists in newsrooms across the country.

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As Ogallala Aquifer Declines in the Great Plains, States Weigh Metering Irrigation Wells

About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to monitoring how much groundwater irrigators are pumping out.

by Graycen Wheeler

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As Ogallala Aquifer Declines in the Great Plains, States Weigh Metering Irrigation Wells

About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to monitoring how much groundwater irrigators are pumping out.

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GraycenWheeler

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Stories by Graycen Wheeler

As Ogallala Aquifer Declines in the Great Plains, States Weigh Metering Irrigation Wells

About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to monitoring how much groundwater irrigators are pumping out.

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