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Federal rules under the Biden-Harris administration require cities to inventory and replace any lead pipes and certain galvanized pipes.

Wichita water customers will be limited to outdoor watering one day a week. That day depends on which part of the city they live in.

The groundwater is polluted with trichloroethylene, a carcinogenic chemical.

Thanks to decades of conservation efforts, Hays has become the California of Kansas — a place where thinking about your water use is a way of life. For now, it’s an outlier. But as climate change brings drier, hotter weather to Kansas, more cities may have to follow a similar path.

The water in the Ogallala aquifer is worth billions of dollars to western Kansas, but it’s rapidly disappearing. And it's been a challenge to find ways to slow the depletion.

HAYS, Kansas — A few years ago, Stuart Beckman drove 65 miles with a neighbor to attend a wedding in Saint Francis in the northwest corner of Kansas....

KINSLEY, Kansas — In the late 1980s, drought left the wells that supply water to the city of Hays and Russell in western Kansas precariously low. The…

GARDEN CITY, Kansas — For almost three months, people living in a mobile home neighborhood just east of Garden City’s limits haven’t been able to drink...

WICHITA, Kansas — About 150,000 people in Kansas get their drinking water from private wells.How clean, and safe, is that water? Short answer: It…

ST. JOHN, Kansas — Water — who gets to use it, when and how — sparks fights all over the world.The latest battleground is in south-central Kansas, near…