In Nebraska, we are exceptionally fortunate to sit above the largest underground reservoir of water in all of North America: the Ogallala Aquifer. The body of water sits below us in gravel, silt and other porous sediments, the topmost edges begin in South Dakota (if looking at it from above as if it were a visible lake) and then it travels downward and goes under parts of Wyoming, then Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and then Texas for (what was recognized as) a total of “3.2 billion acre-feet” of water. A U.S. Geological Survey publication on pubs.gov says that about 66% of the total water volume of the aquifer is under the State of Nebraska (though on a map, the water table looks spread wide under many states, it is the most concentrated in Nebraska). 66% is about 2.1 bi

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