-
GARDEN CITY — Zion Roth farms with his uncle, father and brothers near Garden City. Roth uses tools that monitor weather and the soil moisture on his...
-
Regulate us, pleaseIn 2013, a coalition of school districts formed. They’d be laboratories for new ideas. If they could show the state they were serious…
-
Segment 1: The state of water in Kansas.About three years ago, there were major concerns for the future of water in Kansas. Now that a few years have…
-
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…
-
After decades of alarming headlines, Kansas may be on the verge of preserving an ancient groundwater resource that helped make it an agricultural…
-
The Kansas Geological Survey has spent years studying the groundwater levels of the Ogallala Aquifer to determine how long it can continue to support the…
-
As the Kansas Water Congress opens its annual meeting this year, the state’s top water regulator said the sense of urgency for conservation has never been…
-
Securing Kansas’ water supply — once a hot topic of the legislative session — has faded into the background in Topeka amid pounding rains and a grinding…
-
Eber Phelps was a member of the Hays City Commission in 1991 when two of the city’s water wells went dry, sucking up nothing but air.Until then, Hays had…
-
Water levels within the Ogallala Aquifer, a wide source of groundwater in western Kansas, have been declining to dangerously low levels for the past few…
-
A lot has changed in the three decades since the idea of building an aqueduct from the Missouri River to western Kansas was first studied and shelved. For…
-
The drought, now in its third year in parts of western Kansas is taxing a resource that has been under pressure for decades: the High Plains Aquifer…