Randy Olson, Melissa Farlow Photography

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Storm clouds build above the grain elevator and the town of Portales, New Mexico, a community without well water. Drought is taking its toll putting pressure on the aquifer shared by agriculture.

Copyright

RANDY OLSON

Image Size

6000x4002 / 137.4MB

Keywords

absence, color image, desolate, environmental issues, groundwater depletion, headlights, new mexico, no people, north america, outdoors, photography, portales, roads, rural, southwestern states, towns, twilight, united states, usa, vehicles, water shortages

Contained in galleries

Ogallala Aquifer_National Geographic Magazine 8/2016