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This is part of a "trunk or treat" event in Muleshoe Texas. Rural children come to a parking lot in downtown Muleshoe to get candy that is given out of the backs of farmer's trucks. One farmer got inventive and cut a number of 50 gallon drums into "cattle cars" and pulled the children around this town that is semi-deserted because the water has been mined out below them for agriculture. There are six great aquifers in the world… ours in North America is the Ogallala aquifer and it provides 40 percent of our beef and 20 percent of our food in USA. The fear in the northern part of the aquifer is that the water will be taken away by thirsty southern states. The problem in the southern end of the aquifer is that Texas has 88,000 (basically unregulated) wells that are taking so much of the aquifer that it has become a tragedy of the commons that creates issues beyond Muleshoe. Subdivisions in New Mexico are tapped out of water from Texas agriculture because the aquifer doesn’t adhere to state boundaries.

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This is part of a "trunk or treat" event in Muleshoe Texas. Rural children come to a parking lot in downtown Muleshoe to get candy that is given out of the backs of farmer's trucks. One farmer got inventive and cut a number of 50 gallon drums into "cattle cars" and pulled the children around this town that is semi-deserted because the water has been mined out below them for agriculture. There are six great aquifers in the world… ours in North America is the Ogallala aquifer and it provides 40 percent of our beef and 20 percent of our food in USA. The fear in the northern part of the aquifer is that the water will be taken away by thirsty southern states. The problem in the southern end of the aquifer is that Texas has 88,000 (basically unregulated) wells that are taking so much of the aquifer that it has become a tragedy of the commons that creates issues beyond Muleshoe. Subdivisions in New Mexico are tapped out of water from Texas agriculture because the aquifer doesn’t adhere to state boundaries.