Imagine a town with no water

[NorthernRaider]

Only half the story, they have been over extracting the water from the huge aquifers for generations, all suggestions about controlling or regulating the extraction of water have fallen on deaf ears. The locals can and do just drill wells wherever they like and take as much as they like. In parts of KS the Oghalla aquifer was for decades found only 20 or 30 meters underground now they have to reach over 300 meters down to find water. Pure greed and mismanagement have inflicted this problem on them not fracking. In other areas such as SE CO farmers have been pumping so much water from rivers like the RED and the CANADIAN rivers they stopped flowing through Kansas and Oklahoma the states almost came to blows over CO taking so much water from the rivers. Last time I was there the Canasian river was bone dry cos of over pumping, and of course the aquifers were also not being replentished.
http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2012/fina...ater.shtml

Another point these Blame the Frackers are ignoring is that by over extracting from the deep aquifers it has started allowing salty water from the coast to start leach backwards into the fresh water aquifers.

The drought is the main problem though and its compounded by obscenely wasteful irrigation and sprinkler systems.