Southwest Kansas officials have long pushed a moonshot aqueduct project to send Missouri River water across the state to their region, where a $12.5 billion agricultural economy relies on a dwindling underground aquifer
One proposed project would take water from the Missouri River and move it to help Kansas farmers in the southwest part of the state.GARDEN CITY, Kan.—.
While the effort has been dismissed as legally impossible and expensive, the persistence of the idea demonstrates how drought and a steadily shrinking water supply have created broad consensus that water policies need to be overhauled. In Kansas, where that nearly every county was experiencing some level of drought at the end of 2022, water is among the most urgent issues facing the state legislature this year.
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