September 21, 2007--Ethanol production threatens plains states with water...
The rapid increase in ethanol plants under construction or planned for eight key farm states is threatening to pull billions of gallons of water each year from an aquifer that is already depleted and...
View ArticleJanuary 22, 2008--Big water week in Legislature (Sterling Journal-Advocate)
This week is a big one in the Colorado Legislature for efforts to bring Colorado into compliance with requirements to deliver Republican River Basin water into Nebraska and Kansas. A hearing is...
View ArticleJuly 16, 2008--RRWCD's planned pipeline not quite enough (Sterling Journal...
The 12-mile pipeline planned for delivering well water from the Republican River Basin in Colorado to the Nebraska state line falls a little short — not in length, but because it does not adequately...
View ArticleOctober 30, 2008--Watershed vote on plains (Rocky Mountain News)
Yuma County irrigation wells could be shut down if voters don't approve $27 million in new taxes Tuesday to buy water rights.read more
View ArticleApril 9, 1010--On Plains, concern about another Dust Bowl (USA Today)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, whose department oversees America's land and other natural resources, says another period of mass "relocation" is possible in the 21st century — especially if rain...
View ArticleApril 28, 2010--New west, new dust bowl? (High Country News)
Climate change is on its way to dwarfing the Dust Bowl of the 1930s by an order of magnitude. According to climate models, one of the worst ‘hot spots’ in the nation for drought sits directly atop the...
View ArticleOctober 8, 2011--No water plan seems too extreme (Cortez Journal)
The West’s history of developing water sources, occasionally stained with instances of outright theft, is probably best described as “complicated.” Our decisions on who should get what water — and how,...
View ArticleJune 30, 2013--Farmers look to new ways of irrigating in a drought (New York...
Deep in the Texas Panhandle, where the decline of the Ogallala Aquifer has left farmers fearful for their future, Harold Grall is hoping his field of tiny green corn plants will survive with minimal...
View ArticleSeptember 25, 2013--Many water lessons amid tragedy from Colorado floods...
The recent massive flooding in northeastern Colorado was a tragedy in lost lives, destroyed homes and lost agricultural crops.read more
View ArticleNovember 7, 2013--Water conservation takes center stage in Kansas, Texas...
At the second annual Governor’s Conference on the Future of Water in Kansas, Governor Sam Brownback called on the Kansas Water Office, Kansas Department of Agriculture and Kansas Water Authority to...
View ArticleDecember 5, 2013--Report: Society's water safety net is fraying (Circle of Blue)
It is no exaggeration to claim that aquifers, water-saturated layers of subterranean sediment, have allowed agriculture, and thus modern life in our house of 7 billion, to prosper. America's Great...
View ArticleFebruary 26, 2014--Water declining in western Kansas (Hutchinson News)
Clay Scott is fighting dust. The western Kansas landscape is thirsty. Yet little relief has fallen from the sky. “We’re fighting the drought,” the Grant County farmer said, adding that the little...
View ArticleMarch 6, 2014--Water, water everywhere but where it’s wanted (Kansas City Star)
In 1982, the Army Corps of Engineers released a study of what, even then, seemed like a wacky idea — take billions of gallons of water from the Missouri River each year and pump it hundreds of miles to...
View ArticleJuly 19, 2014--About the Ogallala (Kansas Agland)
The Ogallala Aquifer - a nearly 174,000-square-mile underground cache of water that spreads across parts of Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming - is...
View ArticleJuly 26, 2014--Aquifer's decline threatens economy (Salina Journal)
As a boy in the late 1940s, Gary Baker occasionally rolled out of bed at 3 a.m. to help his father harness a head of water meandering down the Great Eastern Ditch. The supply was diverted from the...
View ArticleOctober 5, 2014--Water officials battle overpumping irrigators (Topeka...
Kansas state records show that fewer irrigators are pumping more than they are allowed but that the issue remains a problem as the Ogallala Aquifer shrinks. Last year, state officials hardened the...
View ArticleOctober 15, 2014--Time for a serious policy on water pricing (Bloomberg...
Do you know the price of your monthly cell phone bill? I bet you do. How about your water bill? What’s the cost difference between taking a shower for 5 minutes or 30 minutes? Most Americans consume...
View ArticleNovember 21, 2014--Farming the Ogallala (KRCC)
Towns are few and far between vast expanses of short grass prairie in Northeastern Colorado. This semi-arid desert gets on average only 17 inches of precipitation every year. But near the farming...
View ArticleDecember 17, 2014--USGS: High Plains Aquifer groundwater declining...
Groundwater levels are declining in an aquifer that serves parts of Oklahoma and seven other states, according to a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey.read more
View ArticleJanuary 2, 2015--States react to new era of water scarcity (Circle of Blue)
California, its hand forced in 2014 by a nasty drought, brought its groundwater laws out of the Gold Rush era and into line with nearly every other state in the Union.read more
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