The Ogallala Aquifer, ... Two tractors were dropping seeds around Walt Hagood’s farm as he turned on his irrigation system for the first time this year. He didn’t plan on using much water.

State lawmakers created groundwater conservation districts in 1949 to protect what water is left. But their power to restrict landowners is limited.

KEARNEY — A boom in irrigation well drilling into the Ogallala Aquifer was the biggest water issue when Mike Jess of Lincoln became Nebraska Department of Water Resources deputy director in 1975.

Dispute imperils irrigation on plains. By Kit Miniclier Denver Post Staff Writer Sept. 27, 2000 - Concerned Eastern Plains ranchers and farmers were told by state Attorney General Ken Salazar on ...

The region’s rapid growth — driven by poultry farms, marijuana farming, and a tourism boom in Hochatown — is putting pressure ...

The prospect of seeing almost all South Platte River water stay in Colorado raised near-universal alarm at Wednesday’s Unicameral hearing on reviving the aborted 1894 Perkins County Canal.

The current limit for permitted water withdrawals from the Antlers aquifer is 2.1 acre-feet per acre, or more than 680,000 gallons of water for each acre of land — the highest allocation of any ...

Mark Haubner First, the Numbers The Suffolk County Water Authority presentation in Southold June 12 offered the number, 93 ...

The Ogallala Aquifer Summit brings diverse stakeholders and policy makers together to collaborate on how best to manage the High Plains’ precious water resources into the future. ... Irrigation in the ...

BAIN: This unit in the Sandhills acts as a recharge for the Ogallala Aquifer. ... It just hits the ground and soaks in, and recharges the aquifer that farmers then use for irrigation.