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2025 Water Tour postcard. (Photo: Nebraska Water Center)
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A KGS team member measures groundwater levels in a well in western Kansas. (Photo: Kansas Geological Survey)
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Kansas Geological Survey, state agency to measure groundwater levels in western Kansas

Cattle getting a morning drink of water. (Photo: iStock - Chester Leeds)
Central Region, Kansas, Livestock, Water

Waterers and watering systems: a handbook for livestock producers and landowners



The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Dry stretch ahead as 2024 nears end

Soybeans (Journal stock photo.)

CSU engineers, stakeholders drive salinity research effort

An irrigation pivot watering a field of turnips. (Photo: iStock - Songbird839)

Daugherty hits 15-year milestone

Sen. Carolyn McGinn, second from right, earned the 2024 Kansas Water Legacy Award at the Governor’s Water Conference Nov. j14 in Manhattan. She is pictured with Dawn Buehler, chair of the Kansas Water Authority; Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Connie Owen, director of the Kansas Water Office. (Photo by Bill Spiegel.)

Kansas set to act upon water issues

Dana Allen-Tully and Brad Carlson stand in a tall buffer strip of plantings on her property that protects a stream from nutrient runoff. (Photo: University of Minnesota Extension)

Getting smart about water quality on the farm

An amended 1944 water treaty between the U.S. and Mexico may offer some relief to Rio Grande Valley farmers grappling with severe water shortages. (Photo: Texas Farm Bureau)

U.S., Mexico reach deal to assist water deliveries for Texas farmers

(Journal photo by Jennifer Theurer.)

Governor Kelly announces more than $320,000 for seven Kansas Water Plan Partnership Initiative projects

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Additional rain benefits High Plains