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Team members like Jasmin Boyd, laboratory technician, get credit for effective operations at the Hobbs facility.
The Ogallala Aquifer is an essential source of water for America’s breadbasket in the west-central high plains. It is being drawn down faster than nature can replenish it, largely for farm irrigation.
The New Mexico city of Hobbs draws water from that aquifer — but about 3.6...