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Press Release: Irrigation Causing Declines in the High Plains Aquifer

Press Release: New Study Lends Insight to Decreasing Denver Basin Groundwater Availability

Press Release: Groundwater Storage Losses Substantial Across Eight State Aquifer System

Report: Groundwater availability of the Mississippi embayment

Report: New tool to assess groundwater resources in the Mississippi embayment

Report: Selected approaches to estimate water-budget components of the High Plains, 1940-1949 and 2000-2009

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Real-time data collection platform (DCP) installation in North Carolina	Monitoring well installation in the High Plains aquifer near Muleshoe, Texas	Aerial view of center pivot irrigation in southwestern Kansas.
Center pivot springler irrigation in Cochran County, Texas	Rhodamine dye injected in stream to trace water movement through a karst aquifer.	Aerial view of south Denver metropolitan area looking west towards the Front Range overlying the Denver Basin aquifers.
Denver Basin public-supply well in residential area of south Denver metropolitan area. Well is completed in Dawson aquifer.	Monitoring well completed in Denver Formation east of Denver, Colorado.	Installation of monitoring well completed in Denver Fomation east of Denver, Colorado
Monitoring well completed in the High Plains aquifer near a center pivot in the Panhandle of Texas.	USGS personnel making ground-water level measurement.	Center-pivot sprinkler irrigation in Nebraska