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  • A depleted cattle water tank on a farm in Texas.
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  • A depleted cattle water tank on a farm in Texas.
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  • A family with a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.
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  • A family with a dry well.
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  • Bedsprings once served as a corral near Elida, New Mexico.
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  • A woman with a dry well does dishes with water from a five-gallon container.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481186.JPG
  • A dilapidated center pivot irrigation system in a field.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481177.JPG
  • A harvester works a wheat field between two feedlots.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481063.JPG
  • A family with a dry well carry water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.
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  • A girl is bathed by her mother in a bucket filled with water hauled from town since their well has run dry.
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  • A woman with a dry well cooks with water from a container.
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  • A family with a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481196.JPG
  • A family with a dry well living in Clovis, New Mexico.
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  • Water is pumped to a football field in New Mexico.
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  • Tractors pack down a giant mound of corn at a feedlot near Imperial, Nebraska, before storm clouds roll in.
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  • Muleshoe, Texas is only one of the small towns that struggle in rural Texas where the water has been mined out by irrigation. All you have to do is look at Google Earth and you see the swath of brown earth where Muleshoe is on the map.
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  • Small towns struggle in the region, where the Ogallala aquifer is pumped for irrigation.
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  • A family with a dry well carry water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481288.TIF
  • A family with a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481184.JPG
  • The town of Portales, New Mexico with a community without well water.
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  • A feedyard in Ingalls, Kansas.
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  • In a county that was littered with post offices, there are now only 5 left.  Durward Dixon, Mayor of Elida, Pop 200, blames the dearth of water. When they lay internet cables in Elida and break the water line, the mayor and the judge run out to the edge of town to turn off the water supply and then help fix the broken main. On the plains around them are signs of hard times in the 40's and 50's like the dairy that used old mattress springs as a containment area for their milk cows. The signs of the future for this place loom over those mattresses - huge farms of wind machines.
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  • A family with a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481183.TIF
  • A family with a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481182.TIF
  • Tractors pack down a giant mound of corn at a feedlot near Imperial, Nebraska, before storm clouds roll in.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2432803.TIF
  • Bedsprings once served as a corral near Elida, New Mexico.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481070-1.TIF
  • A family with a dry well carry water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481287.TIF
  • A woman with a dry well cooks with water from a five-gallon container.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481190.JPG
  • A woman with a dry well carries empty water jugs, bottles and buckets.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481188.JPG
  • A dry wheat field between two feedlots.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481065.TIF
  • A harvester works a wheat field between two feedlots.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2435370.JPG
  • Wind energy generates new income for farmers who have lost earnings as their wells dry up.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2432807.TIF
  • Small towns struggle in the region, where the Ogallala aquifer is pumped for irrigation.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2432804.TIF
  • You can see the building thunderhead in the background at this Imperial NE feedlot where workers are in the middle of a corn rodeo as many huge machines try to put up feed and corn and get it covered before the storm. Imperial has around 53,000 head of cows and the mountain in this photo is all CORN... about 24 million USD of corn in 2015 prices. 5.25 million bushels (around $3.80 a bushel in 2015).
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  • A family with a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481195.TIF
  • The town of Portales, New Mexico with a community without well water.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8429_2481070-2.TIF
  • A family with a dry well carry water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.
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