Special Event
Time:
Land & Water: Rural Resources, Rural Livelihoods
Date:
4:00 pm –
5:00 pm
McCollum Hall
Room: 115
1875 N 42nd St
Lincoln NE 68503
Lincoln NE 68503
Additional Info: LAW
Contact:
Anthony Schutz, (402) 472-1248, anthony@unl.edu
Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
The Ogallala aquifer has sustained life on the American Great Plains for millennia but faces imminent depletion. In his award-winning book Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeys back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the complex layers of law, economics, culture, and history that have shaped the current crisis.
The Ogallala aquifer has sustained life on the American Great Plains for millennia but faces imminent depletion. In his award-winning book Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeys back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the complex layers of law, economics, culture, and history that have shaped the current crisis.