Bret Rooney stands next to one of his water wells that provides irrigation for his crops. Many wells like this are abandoned after drying up across western Kansas. HASKELL COUNTY — For a farmer like ...

Beneath the vast, golden fields of America's Great Plains lies a secret that most people have never heard of - and one that affects what ends up on dinner tables across the entire country. An enormous ...

The new law that requires District 3 to deliver a water conservation action plan was passed in response to the Kansas Water Authority saying last year that the state’s longstanding policy of simply ...

The Ogallala Aquifer that provides water from underground to western Kansas and parts of seven other states could be the subject of a new federal study. The U.S. House passed the Water Resources ...

HAYS — In increasingly dry western Kansas, underground water makes everything possible. Irrigation for crops. Stock water for cattle. Drinking water for towns. In all, the Ogallala Aquifer provides 70 ...

LIBERAL, Kan. (KSNW) – The Ogallala Aquifer Summit is set for March 18-19 in Liberal at the Seward County Fairgrounds. It will be the third time it has been held since 2018. The Ogallala is a vast ...

There’s only so much until it’s gone. It’s a scary statement for those who rely on aquifers for irrigated crop ground, especially as drought conditions continue to persist in western Kansas and the ...

The Ogallala aquifer is a critical source of water in western Kansas, and it’s running dry. It plays a major role in the daily lives of Kansans, even for people who don’t live on top of it. HASKELL ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ATV races along the dry bed of the Arkansas River. An ATV races along the dry bed of the Arkansas River at Dodge City, Kansas.

HASKELL COUNTY — For a farmer like Bret Rooney, not a day goes by that he doesn’t ponder the pond under his feet. That is the Ogallala Aquifer. The subsurface reservoirs trapped between fractured ...

In the summer of 1894, a curious railway car plied the tracks of western Kansas, a chemical soup wafting to a sky ruled by a demon sun and chastened by moisture-devouring winds. At the helm of this ...