Escaping the Ogallala trap

We’re hosting a launch party for Issue 23 in Dublin on April 13th, and subscribers are invited. If you’d like to attend, sign up here. Not yet a subscriber? You can sign up for the magazine here. Plus-ones are welcome.The Ogallala Aquifer sits under eight states and 111.8 million acres of US farmland. A windmill can lift only a few gallons per minute, useful for drinking water but useless for agricultural purposes. In the 1940s, electrification reached the Great Plains and a Colorado farmer inve...