Economics team studies the impact of Mississippi Aquifer Plain depletion.
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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
Farmers and leaders of their organizations know the Mississippi Alluvial Plain’s aquifer has been declining in places. But they don’t always know by how much or what economic impact the decline might have.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s five-year Mississippi Alluvial Plain project is attempting to help them have a better understanding of where groundwater supplies are heading, according to Dr. J.R. Rigby, a water resources research hydrologist.
Rigby, who works with the USGS’s Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center in Oxford, Miss., discussed where the MAP project has been and where USGS and USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists hope it will be going in a presentation to the virtual Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference earlier this year.