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

Webinar discusses drought conditions, outlook for rest of fall and winter 

A center-pivot irrigation system waters a cornfield near Adams, Nebraska, south of Lincoln. (Photo by Craig Chandler, University Communication and Marketing.)

2023 Irrigation and Water Management data now available

Pivot irrigation system over a field in Caddo County near Hydro Oklahoma

Drought’s impact felt in Oklahoma ag