What is it about?
identifies options for farmers, ranchers, other rural residents and rural communities when ground water supplies become depleted
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Why is it important?
identifies how climate change may affect the water supply for farmers, ranchers, rural residents and rural communities. and the sometimes grim options that may be available to cope with climate change induced water shortages
Perspectives
Rural domestic water users usually have little or no protection during water shortages in western states. I wrote this article to try to identify some pragmatic if not always appealing options to deal with these water shortages, including using treated community sewage plant discharged water as an additional source of community drinking water.
J. David Aiken Aiken
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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This page is a summary of: Invited Essay Climate Change and Water Management Challenges Facing the Great Plains, Great Plains Research, January 2020, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/gpr.2020.0012.
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