There is no Kansas as we know it without the Ogallala aquifer. The aquifer provides clean drinking water and a vital source ...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly proposed creating a state natural resources office and spending another $30 million each year to ...

But these farmers seem to be the minority in their concern. Lost jobs and tax revenue would hurt all of Kansas if aquifer depletes “It's not just a farmer’s issue. You're gonna struggle ...

A stony outcropping of the sponge-like rock that makes up the Ogallala Aquifer is exposed in the hills high above Scott State Fishing Lake in Scott County, Kansas. The lake is spring-fed from ...

Jenny Reardon, who grew up in Lenexa, Kansas, is a professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and ...

Calling the Ogallala Aquifer “critical to the viability” of agriculture and maintaining historic economic growth, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly delivered the summit’s opening remarks by ...

As a result, in parts of western Kansas, the aquifer has declined by more than 60 percent during that period. In some parts, it is already exhausted. The decline is steady now, dry years or wet.

The brothers run Foote Cattle Company and, by extension, operate five feedlots in Kansas and Nebraska as well as several ranches. Several of those properties depend on the Ogallala aquifer.

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