Jared Faurot’s blue jeans are getting sprayed under the drip hose sprinklers. Faurot stands beside a center pivot tower, fiddling with a spigot, aiming it closer to the ground. He turned water on this ...

Beneath the vast, golden fields of America's Great Plains lies a secret that most people have never heard of - and one that affects what ends up on dinner tables across the entire country. An enormous ...

The Ogallala Aquifer, a water source of porous rock and sediment bed under farmland, cities and small towns from South Dakota to Texas, is in crisis. The Ogallala Aquifer provides irrigation for 30% ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HASKELL COUNTY — For a farmer like Bret Rooney, not a day goes by that he doesn’t ponder the pond under his feet. That is the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (Kansas Reflector) Aquifer levels in parts of western Kansas that rely on groundwater for everything from drinking to irrigation fell more than a foot last year, Kansas Geological Survey ...

Drought is speeding up depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer so much that a University of Kansas researcher calls the problem "as pressing or more pressing" than it ever has been before. Eight university ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Southwest Kansas farmers could soon face major water cuts. It is part of a long-term plan to save the Ogallala Aquifer. One expert says if these farmers do not act, the state ...

HASKELL COUNTY — For a farmer like Bret Rooney, not a day goes by that he doesn’t ponder the pond under his feet. That is the Ogallala Aquifer. The subsurface reservoirs trapped between fractured ...

Sprinklers irrigate a field in Hamilton County, Kansas. Decades of irrigation have slowly drained the Ogallala Aquifer. Aquifer levels in parts of western Kansas that rely on groundwater for ...

The Ogallala aquifer is a critical source of water in western Kansas, and it’s running dry. It plays a major role in the daily lives of Kansans, even for people who don’t live on top of it. HASKELL ...