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Time, Water Running Out for America's Biggest Aquifer

By Dave ThierApr 20th 2010 – 6:41PM
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(April 21) -- In 1823, a government surveyor named Stephen Long was working to map out the Great Plains, an expanse of land acquired along with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. He was unimpressed by what he saw. As his geographer wrote in the report that accompanied the expedition: I do not hesitate in giving the opinion...

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