Kansas Water Office

HARTFORD, Kansas — Some of Kansas’ major reservoirs are filling up with sediment, and if something isn’t done to address the issue, parts of eastern…

Kansas water use is declining, according to a new report from the U.S. Geological survey.In 2015, Kansas used on average more than 4 billion gallons of…

Flying east to west over Kansas, the land transforms from lush green to desert brown. Rectangular farm plots fill in with emerald circles, the work of...

The Kansas Water Office has received more than $2.5 million from the federal government to help fight harmful algae blooms in the state's largest lake.…

Kansas owns water storage in 14 federal reservoirs managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But the storage capacity of those lakes is gradually…

If Kansas' current drought continues through 2013, the severity of the water shortage may rival the bad years of the 1930s and '50s.The drought is already…