The High Plains Aquifer provides 30 percent of the water used in the nation’s irrigated agriculture. The aquifer runs under South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. (Photo courtesy of K-State Research and Extension.)

Governor Kelly Announces Kansas Receiving Nearly $25 Million to Support High Plains Aquifer

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Trent Loos Rural Route Radio Podcast October 31, 2023

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(Photo: Colorado State University)

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Nebraska has pioneered the use of airborne electromagnetics on a regional scale for aquifer mapping, thereby boosting groundwater management capability. A helicopter carries a large loop of wire whose electromagnetic signaling help image subsurface conditions and create a 3D geological model. (Photo: Katie Cameron | Natural Resources)

California turns to Nebraska on aquifer analysis, groundwater management

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