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Running out : in search of water on the High Plains / Lucas Bessire.

By: Bessire, Lucas [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780691212654; 0691212651; 9780691224121; 0691224129.Subject(s): Groundwater -- High Plains (U.S.) | Water-supply -- Social aspects -- High Plains (U.S.) | High Plains Aquifer | High Plains (U.S.) -- Social conditions | Eau souterraine -- Hautes Plaines (�Etats-Unis) | Eau -- Approvisionnement -- Aspect social -- Hautes Plaines (�Etats-Unis) | Hautes Plaines (�Etats-Unis) -- Conditions sociales | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General | Groundwater | Social conditions | Water-supply -- Social aspects | United States -- High Plains | United States -- High Plains Aquifer | Great Plains | Heartland | Julene Bair | Ogallala Blue | Sarah Smarsh | The Ogallala Road | William Ashworth | belonging | conservative America | conservative values | environment | environmental crisis | ethnography | exclusion | family histories | farm families | global warming | groundwater depletion | memoir | memory | partisanship | polarization | resource depletion | rural life | sustainability | the best memoirs | water crisis | water warsGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Running outDDC classification: 333.91/040978 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAP OF THE OGALLALA AQUIFER, 2015 -- MAP OF THE LITTLE ROCK HOUSE -- NOTE TO THE READER -- LINES -- BONES -- DUST -- CLOUDS -- AFTERWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX
Summary: "This book-the first ethnography of water conservation on the Great Plains-provides an account of High Plains aquifer decline through an exploration of the different ways in which heartland residents inhabit and understand the imminent depletion of groundwater. This literary ethnography offers a vividly sketched look into the lives and stories of this community, based on interviews with members of the community such as fellow farmers and state regulators, woven together with historical data, journalistic documentation, and Bessire's personal reflections of his family's lived experiences. (Five generations of the author's family have lived in the region as farmers and ranchers.)"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

"This book-the first ethnography of water conservation on the Great Plains-provides an account of High Plains aquifer decline through an exploration of the different ways in which heartland residents inhabit and understand the imminent depletion of groundwater. This literary ethnography offers a vividly sketched look into the lives and stories of this community, based on interviews with members of the community such as fellow farmers and state regulators, woven together with historical data, journalistic documentation, and Bessire's personal reflections of his family's lived experiences. (Five generations of the author's family have lived in the region as farmers and ranchers.)"-- Provided by publisher.

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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAP OF THE OGALLALA AQUIFER, 2015 -- MAP OF THE LITTLE ROCK HOUSE -- NOTE TO THE READER -- LINES -- BONES -- DUST -- CLOUDS -- AFTERWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX

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