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 ...

State lawmakers created groundwater conservation districts in 1949 to protect what water is left. But their power to restrict ...

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.

Jared Faurot farms thousands of acres of wheat, corn and sorghum in Scott County, Kansas, part of the 4-County LEMA district ...

The Ogallala Aquifer yields less and less. “My granddad dug the well. My dad pumped the well,” said the 65-year-old farmer. “And I’m going to be the generation that capped the well.” ...

Statewide, the amount of water pumped from underground and sprayed onto crops averages out to more than 2 billion gallons per ...

Hydraulic pumps and mechanized irrigation equipment gave America’s Great Plains farmers access to seemingly limitless subterranean water wealth: the Ogallala Aquifer. Six decades have passed, though, ...

SHERIDAN COUNTY, Kansas — Hydraulic pumps and mechanized irrigation equipment gave America’s Great Plains farmers access to seemingly limitless subterranean water wealth: the Ogallala Aquifer. Six ...

Statewide aquifer levels dropped by nearly two feet over the past year — this third-largest decline since the 1990s. Water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer continue to plummet as farm irrigation ...

That is the Ogallala Aquifer. The subsurface reservoirs trapped between fractured layers of rock and soil saved this region ...