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Posts Tagged ‘Water’

Farm to Trouble: Could the Mississippi River Benefit from This Strategy to Improve Water Quality?

By | July 23, 2024 | 0
Runoff enters the Appomattox River, a major tributary of the James River, which flows into southern Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.

A Chesapeake Bay program could be a model for the Mississippi River as it deals with runoff that fouls water and contributes to a dead zone off the Gulf Coast.

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‘Time for a Reckoning.’ Kansas Farmers Brace for Water Cuts to Save Ogallala Aquifer

By | June 13, 2024 | 0
Sprinklers irrigate a field in Hamilton County, Kansas, where some farmers have petitioned to be removed from a local groundwater management district. State lawmakers are pressuring the district to do more to conserve water in the Ogallala Aquifer.

After decades of local inaction, Kansas lawmakers are pushing for big changes in irrigation to conserve water and save the Ogallala Aquifer.

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Parched in the Panhandle: Town Frets About Water

By | June 11, 2024 | 0
A water tower in Guymon, Oklahoma, which relies on the Ogallala Aquifer for drinking water.

How Seaboard Foods rebuilt the Oklahoma panhandle’s economy, which ushered in a new era of groundwater depletion from the Ogallala Aquifer.

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Kansas and Missouri Brace for Another Year of Drought 

By | May 3, 2024 | 0
Two hoop barns covered in white tarp are filled with a small amount of round hay bales.

Missouri and Kansas remain in drought conditions. Meteorologists and water experts are working to figure out what producers should expect this growing season.  

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Agriculture Built High Plains Towns. Now, it Might Run Them Dry.

By | January 29, 2024 | 0
Brownie Wilson kneels next to a decommissioned irrigation well outside Moscow, Kansas.

The Ogallala Aquifer, which spans eight states from South Dakota to the Texas Panhandle, is the primary water source for parts of the region. It’s running dry.

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