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The project is meant to prove that large transfers of water could be a tool to help save the disappearing Ogallala Aquifer, which provides irrigation and drinking water to western Kansas. But other groundwater management officials say it’s a distraction from the far more urgent task of conservation.
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Kansas City traffic fatalities are up 25% from a year earlier, and nationwide, deaths are at a 20-year high, a surge not seen among any other developed countries. Plus: Congress is spending billions to help states stop pollution from abandoned oil and gas wells.
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The more than 13 million American households that get their drinking water from private wells aren’t required by state or federal environmental agencies...
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WICHITA, Kansas — About 150,000 people in Kansas get their drinking water from private wells. How clean, and safe, is that water? Short answer: It...
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ST. JOHN, Kansas — Water — who gets to use it, when and how — sparks fights all over the world. The latest battleground is in south-central Kansas, near...
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Segment 1: Why the Federal Emergency Managment Agency recommends flood coverage for everyone.Flooding occurs in 90% of natural disasters in the United…
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Water is still on the mind of many Missourians right about now. As floodwaters crept their way down the Missouri River in recent weeks, questions…
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The water we drink is protected by federal rules, which are at the crux of a long-running fight over how far upstream that protection extends.“Agriculture…
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Flying east to west over Kansas, the land transforms from lush green to desert brown. Rectangular farm plots fill in with emerald circles, the work of...
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Powers of McGruffIf a police officer in Kansas thinks they smell weed — even an unlit bud in a plastic bag six paces away — the state’s high court says…
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In the summer of 2002, water pumps in Colorado’s San Luis Valley stopped working.The center pivot sprinklers that coax shoots from the dry soil and turn…
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After decades of alarming headlines, Kansas may be on the verge of preserving an ancient groundwater resource that helped make it an agricultural…