National Public Radio: Across the high plains, many farmers depend on underground stores of water, and they worry about wells going dry. A new scientific study of western Kansas lays out a predicted timeline for those fears to become reality. But it also shows an alternative path for farming in Kansas: The moment of reckoning can be delayed, and the impact softened, if farmers start conserving water now.
David Steward, a water expert at Kansas State University, says that he and his colleagues started this research project......
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Turning Off The Spigot In Western Kansas Farmland
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 27th, 2013
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