Where’s the Hafnium

This is only partly a water story, but something like 5 trillion gallons of water is being pumped from the Ogallala aquifer, utilized by states from North Dakota to Texas. The aquifer has lost 33% of its water since 1950.

At its current usage rate, rainfall will not be able to replenish this underground water source. Unless we make far more drastic changes in the way we use water, we will be in serious trouble in a rapidly approaching future. Imagine a state like Kansas really devoid of people.

We may, for example, want to seriously reexamine the entire corn