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

LAWRENCE — Beginning in mid-June and continuing until early July, residents of west-central Kansas may see a low-flying ...

But the water is running out. Wells in western Kansas pump out of the Ogallala Aquifer, a vast underground water repository stretching from South Dakota to New Mexico. The U.S. Geological Survey d ...

With irrigation systems running across Kansas fields, a simple adjustment could make a big difference in conserving water and ...

STILLWATER, Okla. — The Ogallala Aquifer, a water source of porous rock and sediment bed under farmland, cities and small towns from South Dakota to Texas, is in crisis. The Ogallala Aquifer ...

For years, their measurements have shown what farmers and water conservationists fear most — the Ogallala Aquifer, an underground water source that’s the lifeblood of the South Plains ...

Mike Johanns called on federal officials Thursday to explain why a proposed crude-oil pipeline cannot bypass the porous soils of the Nebraska Sandhills and the heart of the Ogallala Aquifer.

Every winter, after the sea of cotton has been harvested in the South Plains of Texas and the ground looks barren, technicians with the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District check ...

LINCOLN — A smaller, less controversial crude-oil pipeline will cross a corner of Nebraska and the Ogallala Aquifer. Work on the Pony Express Pipeline, which will be converted from shipping ...

The cattle feedlots on the western side of Kansas produce a significant amount of the beef in your grocery store. But a small ...

The Kansas Geological Survey earlier this month completed its annual campaign to measure the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies the western one-third of the state with water. The Ogallala ...