If you are not particularly wise in the ways of ground-water management, preservation, depletion, and use, the following websites/ articles will provide a good foundation upon which you can establish a better informed position, understanding:
Background
- Groundwater Overuse and Depletion (from The Groundwater Foundation)
- Groundwater depletion (from the USGS Water Science School)
- If You Think the Water Crisis Can’t Get Worse, Wait Until the Aquifers Are Drained (from the National Geographic Society)
- Groundwater Depletion Stresses Majority of World’s Largest Aquifers (from the Circle of Blue)
- Groundwater Drawdown (from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
Douglas County & Denver Basin Aquifers
- The water under Colorado’s Eastern Plains is running dry as farmers keep irrigating “great American desert”–New!–
- Groundwater Levels in the Denver Basin Bedrock Aquifers of Douglas County, Colorado, 2011–2013 (from the USGS)
- Douglas County Groundwater Study (from the Colorado Geological Survey)
- Groundwater (from the Colorado Geological Survey)
- What is an Aquifer? (from Douglas County)
- Stratigraphy and water levels in the Arapahoe aquifer, Douglas County area, Denver Basin, Colorado (from Researchgate)
Front Range Groundwater “News”
- Tainted water cancels harvest sales at iconic Venetucci Farm, frightens residents (from the Denver Post)
- Aquifer wells in Douglas County challenge renewable-water strategies (from the Denver Post)
- Robbing our groundwater savings accounts for today’s needs (from Mountain Town News)
- For southeast Colorado, a new dust bowl is blowing in