The Ogallala Aquifer is located in 8 states, they are Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. As you can see in the pictyre above, the Ogallala expands 1,000 square miles, from Texas to South dakota. My role and purpose as a scientist going to Ogallala Aquifer is to find a way to reduce the ground contamination. The Ogallala is being depleted and polluted, the irrigation withdraws a lot of groundwater and hardly any of it is replaced or recharged. The Ogallala is on the Great Plains, it's made of sand, gravelm minerals, and other substances. It is starting to run dry, this is making wells run dry too. Farms are starting to foreclose and the population of small towns are decreasing since the Ogallala is starting to run dry. We believe that it will take 6,000 years to restore and refill the reservior to it's original condition. Around the Ogallala there are Rockie Mountains to the West, great Plains to the East, and many farms are around it too. There are praire dogs, grasslands, pronghorn antelope, foxes, praire chickens, and many more types of animals live around the Ogallala region. Ogallala reveals that Earth's waters are being polluted and used too much without recharging. Humans are using the Ogallala water carelessly and too much for there consumption. They need to give the Ogallala a rest so it can recharge or slow down on the amount they use.
