H2Oklahoma

Interesting factoids—

•  Water in Oklahoma—the OWRB comprehensive water plan (not final yet) shows 18 years of adequate water for the Oklahoma City area assuming average conditions, consumption and population growth.
•  It takes 34 Five gallon jugs of water to produce a loaf of bread.
• 15% of the water used to irrigate crops in Texas was used to fracture wells in Texas.  Subsurface aquifers (essentially underground lakes) are considered “private property” where surface water is considered “public property”. 
•  I was only able to float the sailboat at Hefner for one month this year due to lack of water. 

Here is a link to a report done in January of 2007 that is interesting, comprehensive and understandable for a lay person like me. (pictures and color too)
http://www.owrb.ok.gov/studies/reports/reports_pdf/Drought_of_WY2006.pdf